[PATCH V2 2/2] ARM: tegra: move timer.c to drivers/clocksource/

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Tue Nov 20 03:17:11 EST 2012


Josh,

On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:50:36 -0600, Josh Cartwright wrote:

> I had suggested this with Thomas Petazzoni's consolidated irq_chip patch
> as well:
> 
> It seems like it would be a bit cleaner/easier to maintain if we relied
> on the linker to stitch together a clksrc_of_match table, based on what
> clocksources are being built into the image.  With that approach, at
> least, a public initialization header wouldn't have to be exposed, and
> this central table wouldn't have to be maintained (as more clocksrcs are
> added, I forsee [admittedly trivial] merge conflicts).

... and I indeed have a new version of my irqchip patches that indeed
use the linker to merge together the of_device_id entries!

Best regards,

Thomas
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