[PATCH v2 02/11] clocksource:global_timer: Add ARM global timer support.

Srinivas KANDAGATLA srinivas.kandagatla at st.com
Wed Jun 12 06:45:37 EDT 2013


On 11/06/13 21:13, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Srinivas KANDAGATLA
> <srinivas.kandagatla at st.com> wrote:
> 
>> Doing this is not adding any value to the driver, because
>>  1. Currently the driver only support DT boot paths, in my previous RFC
>> patches, Arnd suggested to get rid of the header as all platforms are DT
>> now.
> 
> In that case why do you have the separate global_timer_init()
> at all? Just move that code into global_timer_of_register() and
> also remove the #ifdef around CONFIG_OF and make the driver
> depend on CONFIG_OF in Kconfig.
> 
> After this you realize that all that business with
> clk_register_clkdev() / clk_get_sys() is just pure surplus
> baggade, you just use of_clk_get() and that's it.

It makes sense to move all the code into global_timer_of_register().
This will also get rid of un-used code. I will do this in the next spin.

Thanks,
srini

> 
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij
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