Suman Anna <s-a...@ti.com> writes:

> Hi Felipe,
>
> On 10/05/2015 02:48 PM, Balbi, Felipe wrote:
>> We actually want these devices to be created because
>> we will be moving timers to drivers/clocksource and
>> this will prevent them from probing.
>
> This logic is also used to remove the secure timer from being
> registered to the kernel on HS devices, while allowing the timer to be
> available on GP devices. Your patch actually would break that
> functionality. I suggest that you look at the history of the code that

heh, that's a silly way of doing so. Could just detect if we're running
on HS or not.

> originally added this logic - this function seems to be designed to
> actually remove the node. The OMAP DMTimer provides an API to request
> timers, and I think this logic was used to eliminate giving out the
> timers used for clocksource and clockevent when the driver got adapted
> to DT.

again not the best way of achieving what you want. In any case, other
than ir-rx51.c who's using that API ? Seems like we could just pass a
phandle to ir-rx51 and be done with it.

>> Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <ba...@ti.com>
>> ---
>> 
>> Tony, I wonder if you can get merged as a fix, or do you
>> prefer receiving it together with my timer series ?
>
> NAK for rc, as it breaks other stuff.

a single stuff which is likely easy enough to fix. But fair enough

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