[RESEND PATCH v4 0/5] acpi, clocksource: add GTDT and ARM memory-mapped timer support

[Daniel Lezcano]

On 03/18/2016 09:00 AM, fu.wei at linaro.org wrote:
> From: Fu Wei <fu.wei at linaro.org>
>
> This patchset:
>      (1)Move some enums and marcos to header file for arm_arch_timer,
>      improve the pr_* code by defining "pr_fmt(fmt)" in arm_arch_timer.c
>
>      (2)Introduce ACPI GTDT parser: drivers/acpi/gtdt.c
>      Parse all kinds of timer in GTDT table of ACPI:arch timer,
>      memory-mapped timer and SBSA Generic Watchdog timer.
>      This driver can help to simplify all the relevant timer drivers,
>      and separate all the ACPI GTDT knowledge from them.
>
>      (3)Simplify ACPI code for arch timer in arm_arch_timer.c
>
>      (4)Add memory-mapped timer support in arm_arch_timer.c
>
> RESEND:
>     -- Corrected Cc list: added missing mailing lists

Hi Fu Wei,

the whole series is lacking to encapsulate the ACPI code.

I believe Marc Zyngier did a first effort to make the ACPI self 
contained and this series ignore that.

Please rework the series in the direction no acpi gtdt structure appears 
in the driver.

Thanks

   -- Daniel



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