[RFC PATCH] arm: move timer init to late_timer_init

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Mon May 2 18:22:11 EDT 2011


On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 10:42:20PM +0200, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> and add global early device init
> this will init earlytimer and will try to probe 1 or 2 timers for clockevents
> and clocksource

Why should this change the positioning of sched_clock initialization
too?

You know, to spend time sorting out the sched_clock crap that platform
people came up with, to get sched_clock working at the right point in
the init sequence so that everything is happy, and then to have all
that work undone one kernel version later... well, why did I even bother.



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