On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 02:01:13AM +0900, Atsushi Nemoto wrote: > On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:36:10 +0100, Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Also I found mips_timer_ack and cycles_per_jiffy are not used now. > > > Can we remove them entirely? > > > > I think so. Each clockevent device should rather try to be independent > > of others. What made the old timer code such a mess is that it was > > desparately trying to share resources giving everybody plenty of rope ... > > So all mips_timer_ack users should implement its own clockevent > device, right? Yes. > $ git-grep mips_timer_ack arch/mips > arch/mips/dec/time.c: mips_timer_ack = dec_timer_ack; > arch/mips/jmr3927/rbhma3100/setup.c: mips_timer_ack = jmr3927_timer_ack; > arch/mips/philips/pnx8550/common/time.c: mips_timer_ack = timer_ack; > arch/mips/sni/time.c: mips_timer_ack = sni_a20r_timer_ack; Not too many then I guess ;-) Ralf
