[PATCH 1/3] clocksource: rockchip: Make the driver more readability and compatible

Caesar Wang caesar.upstream at gmail.com
Thu Sep 17 02:28:10 PDT 2015


Hi Daniel,


在 2015年09月17日 17:11, Daniel Lezcano 写道:
>
> Hi Caesar,
>
>
> On 09/17/2015 09:51 AM, Caesar Wang wrote:
>> Build the arm64 SoCs (e.g.: RK3368) on Rockchip platform,
>> There are some failure with build up on timer driver for rockchip.
>>
>> logs:
>> ...
>> drivers/clocksource/rockchip_timer.c:156:13: error: 'NO_IRQ' undeclared
>
> I think the NO_IRQ definition is missing for ARM64.

Yep, Maybe better to compatible if we don't use the 'NO_IRQ',

>
>> /tmp/ccdAnNy5.s:47: Error: missing immediate expression at  operand 1 --
>> `dsb`
>> ...
>>
>> The problem was different semantics of dsb on btw arm32 and arm64,
>> Here we can convert the dsb with insteading of dsb(sy).
>
> What happens to ARM32 then ?
>

The dsb() is ok for ARM32, the ARM32/64 are OK if we can convert the 
dsb() to dsb(sy).
I believe all drivers with 'dsb()' have same issue on ARM64 platform.

>> Meanwhile, I change a bit to make the code more readability for driver
>> when I check the code style.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Caesar Wang <wxt at rock-chips.com>
>
>


-- 
Thanks,
Caesar




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