[RFC PATCH] arm: move timer init to late_timer_init

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 12:15:22AM +0200, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> On 23:22 Mon 02 May     , Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 10:42:20PM +0200, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> > > and add global early device init
> > > this will init earlytimer and will try to probe 1 or 2 timers for clockevents
> > > and clocksource
> > 
> > Why should this change the positioning of sched_clock initialization
> > too?
> > 
> > You know, to spend time sorting out the sched_clock crap that platform
> > people came up with, to get sched_clock working at the right point in
> > the init sequence so that everything is happy, and then to have all
> > that work undone one kernel version later... well, why did I even bother.
> so is it ok to put the early init in time_init for you?

If it works there, then there's no problem.  I'm just left wondering why
you decided to try the late_time_init() thing in the first place.  Was
there a specific reason?