[PATCH v2 4/4] clocksource/drivers/timer-mediatek: Make timer-mediatek become loadable module

Sudeep Holla sudeep.holla at arm.com
Tue Feb 14 14:20:21 PST 2023


On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 06:53:14PM +0800, walter.chang at mediatek.com wrote:
> From: Chun-Hung Wu <chun-hung.wu at mediatek.com>
> 
> Make the timer-mediatek driver which can register
> an always-on timer as tick_broadcast_device on
> MediaTek SoCs become loadable module in GKI.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chun-Hung Wu <chun-hung.wu at mediatek.com>
> ---
>  drivers/clocksource/Kconfig          |  2 +-
>  drivers/clocksource/timer-mediatek.c | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

[...]

> diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/timer-mediatek.c b/drivers/clocksource/timer-mediatek.c
> index d5b29fd03ca2..3358758ea694 100644
> --- a/drivers/clocksource/timer-mediatek.c
> +++ b/drivers/clocksource/timer-mediatek.c

[...]

> +static const struct of_device_id mtk_timer_match_table[] = {
> +	{
> +		.compatible = "mediatek,mt6577-timer",
> +		.data = mtk_gpt_init,
> +	},
> +	{
> +		.compatible = "mediatek,mt6765-timer",
> +		.data = mtk_syst_init,
> +	},
> +	{
> +		.compatible = "mediatek,mt6795-systimer",
> +		.data = mtk_cpux_init,
> +	},
> +	{}
> +};
> +
> +static struct platform_driver mtk_timer_driver = {
> +	.probe = mtk_timer_probe,
> +	.driver = {
> +		.name = "mtk-timer",
> +		.of_match_table = mtk_timer_match_table,
> +	},
> +};
> +module_platform_driver(mtk_timer_driver);
> +
> +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("MediaTek Module Timer driver");
> +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
> +#else
>  TIMER_OF_DECLARE(mtk_mt6577, "mediatek,mt6577-timer", mtk_gpt_init);
>  TIMER_OF_DECLARE(mtk_mt6765, "mediatek,mt6765-timer", mtk_syst_init);
>  TIMER_OF_DECLARE(mtk_mt6795, "mediatek,mt6795-systimer", mtk_cpux_init);

Why do you need these ? If this driver can work as a module, it can be
built-in module and doesn't need to be initialised early using of_timer_init
(can't recall the exact name)


-- 
Regards,
Sudeep



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