[PATCH v5 0/6] exynos: Move pmu driver to driver/soc folder and add exynos7 support

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Sun Nov 30 03:49:46 PST 2014


On Saturday 29 November 2014 19:45:02 Amit Daniel Kachhap wrote:
> This patch series [1 - 6] performs,
> 
> 1) Moves pmu driver to driver/soc/samsung folder. This is needed as exynos7 is
>    an arm64 based platform and hence PMU driver should be in driver folder.
>    Some discussion happened about this in the v1 version. Finally adding it in
>    driver/soc folder as it too SoC specific and not a general driver.
>    Entire discussion can be found here (A).
> 2) Add exynos7 PMU support.
> 3) Enables the driver for 32bit arm exynos platforms.
> 
> TODO: There is some suggestion to split the PMU data for 32 bit and 64 bit
> Exynos SOC. This can be implemented as a separate optimization patches.
> Submitting this version without much change from previous version as the merge
> window is near.

I only now saw this series. I think it's a bad idea to have this code shared
with arm64 at all, and I want to see a proper driver for the PMU.

	Arnd



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