[PATCH 6/6] clocksource: update and move armada-370-xp-timer documentation to timer directory

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Mon Jan 21 13:22:53 EST 2013


On Monday 21 January 2013, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> +
> +Required properties:
> +- compatible: Should be "marvell,armada-370-xp-timer"
> +- interrupts: Should contain the list of Global Timer interrupts and
> +  then local timer interrupts
> +- reg: Should contain location and length for timers register. First
> +  pair for the Global Timer registers, second pair for the
> +  local/private timers.
> +- clocks: clock driving the timer hardware
> +
> +Optional properties:
> +- marvell,timer-25Mhz: Tells whether the Global timer supports the 25
> +  Mhz fixed mode (available on Armada XP and not on Armada 370)

This works fine, but I would consider it slightly cleaner to kill
the marvell,timer-25Mhz property and instead have separate 
marvell,armada-370-timer and marvell,armada-xp-timer compatible
strings, since the two timers are actually different, rather than wired
differently.

	Arnd



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