[RFC PATCH 00/16] Consolidation: move SMP local timers to driver/clocksource

[Magnus Damm]

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 09:25:30AM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> On 17/06/11 18:25, Rob Herring wrote:
>> > If this is the direction to go, then there are a lot of other timers
>> > that can be moved besides just local timers. But Russell didn't really
>> > like the shmobile patches for early platform devices which this relies
>> > on. So we should get agreement on the small bit of infrastructure needed
>> > first, then start moving individual timers.
>>
>> I'm open to suggestions. Should the early platform infrastructure be
>> flagged as unsuitable, I'd be happy to switch to something else, as long
>> as it is minimal, and does not create another ARM-specific API (been
>> there, done that...).
>
> I am most certainly not a fan of the early platform device stuff as I've
> said in the past.
>
> It looks to me like:
>
> 1. it's overcomplex and fragile.
> 2. it abuses the early command line system.
> 3. it abuses platform devices etc.
> 4. it requires more initialization calls.
>
> Lastly, and probably more importantly for the direction we're going, I
> can't see how it would hook into DT other than using the DT provided
> command line, which also appears to be an abuse there too.
>
> Surely there's a better solution.

Which is?