[RFC PATCH 01/16] ARM: local timers: early device probing hooks

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Fri Jun 17 12:10:27 EDT 2011


On Friday 17 June 2011, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > 
> > Instead of having two separate global pointers, should we make the ARM specific
> > callback a machine_desc callback?
> 
> Probably not. I only see this arm_late_time_init pointer as a temporary
> measure. The only user (shmobile) uses this hook to install its own
> early timers, and there is a patch floating around to move that code to
> time.c. Unless we have other uses for such a callback, of course.

Ok, fair enough.

	Arnd



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