[PATCH] arm: fix regression in ixp4xx clocksource

Richard Cochran richardcochran at gmail.com
Mon Jun 13 01:58:31 EDT 2011


On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 02:51:59PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>
> It's basically a problem, and its one of the unfortunate prices paid
> by consolidating code - things become harder and less efficient to do.
> 
> In this case, I think we need a set of _be() clocksource accessors in
> mmio.c, and leave it up to the platform to select the correct accessor.

So, is IXP the only machine that would need such accessors?

If so, then I think just using my patch as a single exception would be
fine (maybe adding a comment justifying the exception).

Thanks,
Richard



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