On 30/04/15 15:09, Rob Herring wrote:
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 5:44 AM, Sudeep Holla <[email protected]> wrote:The header asm/hardware/arm_timer.h is included in various machine specific files to access TIMER_CTRL and initialise to a known state. However that's not required as the clock{source,event} driver timer-sp initialises all the timer being used.I believe the idea is not to initialize the timers being used, but the ones not being used and perhaps left running by the bootloader. Cases where the interrupt is shared could cause a problem.
Ah OK, makes sense. I will wait for Russell to confirm. The main idea was to keep the header file having offsets local to driver/clocksource and avoid sharing it in include/linux but looks like that's not possible. Regards, Sudeep -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
