[PATCH V2 04/14] ARM: OMAP: Fix timer posted mode support

Santosh Shilimkar santosh.shilimkar at ti.com
Wed Nov 7 17:21:07 EST 2012


On Wednesday 07 November 2012 01:01 PM, Jon Hunter wrote:
> Currently the dmtimer posted mode is being enabled when the function
> omap_dm_timer_enable_posted() is called. This function is only being called
> for OMAP1 timers and OMAP2+ timers that are being used as system timers. Hence,
> for OMAP2+ timers that are NOT being used as a system timer, posted mode is
> not enabled but the "timer->posted" variable is still set (incorrectly) in
> the omap_dm_timer_prepare() function.
>
> This is a regression introduced by commit 3392cdd3 (ARM: OMAP: dmtimer:
> switch-over to platform device driver) which was before the
> omap_dm_timer_enable_posted() function was introduced. Although this is a
> regression from the original code it only impacts performance and so is not
> needed for stable.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jon Hunter <jon-hunter at ti.com>
> ---
Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar at ti.com>




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