On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 18:52:36 +0300, Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I would like to discourage you from repeating those JMR3927 > clocksource "tricks" when you have 3 spare count/compare regs. This > will warrant troubles when clockevents support gets merged into > mainline (in fact, it was not necessary even on JMR3927 which has 3 > timers). Although, if the timer isn't auto-reloading (I assume it > isn't), the trick shouldn't be needed. Indeed. JMR3927 is not good for reference on writing new code. Though I do not know the PNX8550 timer details, if writing to the COMPARE reset the COUNTER or COUNTER wrapped to zero at a value in COMPARE, perhaps we can not use c0_hpt_read for clocksource. --- Atsushi Nemoto
