[PATCH 06/10] omap2+: Remove gptimer_wakeup for now

[Kevin Hilman]

Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com> writes:

> * Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar at ti.com> [110623 08:09]:
>> On 6/23/2011 8:35 PM, Kevin Hilman wrote:
>> >Tony Lindgren<tony at atomide.com>  writes:
>> >
>> >So now, the only thing OMAP-specific is the debugfs file used to trigger
>> >it.
>> >
>> >>Maybe Kevin can just carry it along in the PM branch for now?
>> >
>> >I'd prefer to keep it in mainline as this is a very important feature
>> >for the PM functionality already in mainline.
>> >
>> I agree with Kevin and that's what have been saying from begining when
>> we decided to drop this feature. The new patch from Kevin is already
>> doing this in more generic way than that was before.
>
> To me Kevin's later patch makes more sense, but still has few issues:
>
> - It keeps the dependency between PM debug code and sys_timer code.
>   That's yet another artificial blocker for making PM code a loadable
>   module. We really don't want to export anything from the sys_timer code.
>
> - The interface for programming a wake-up timer should be Linux generic,
>   not omap specific.
>
> Further, it's a CONFIG_PM_DEBUG patch. So that code should not be
> in the mainline kernel.

Huh?  

Please clarify why PM debug code shouldn't be in mainline?

Kevin