On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 02:23:18PM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote: > * NeilBrown <[email protected]> [131023 23:36]: > > > > I submitted this in December last year. I got lots of good feedback > > and fixed some things, but it never got accepted. Not entirely sure > > why, maybe I dropped the ball. > > > > Anyway, here is again with device-tree support added. > > > > This is only an RFC and not a real submission for two reasons, both of which > > are really directed as Jon. > > > > 1/ I have to > > > > #include <../arch/arm/plat-omap/include/plat/dmtimer.h> > > > > which is incredibly ugly. > > Is there any reason this cannot be moved to include/linux/omap-dmtimer.h? > > Yes that's what at least dw_apb_timer and sh_timer are doing. > > > 2/ I found that I need to call > > > > omap_dm_timer_write_counter(omap->dm_timer, DM_TIMER_LOAD_MIN); > > > > when using device-tree. This is because with devicetree > > omap_timer_restore_context() is called much more often and it sets the > > counter > > register to 0 .. it takes a long time to count up to DM_TIMER_LOAD_MIN > > from there. > > > > Now I don't object to calling omap_dm_timer_write_counter (though it might > > be nice if > > omap_dm_timer_set_load wrote the one value to both LOAD_REG and > > COUNTER_REG). > > However it seems wrong that I have to call it *after* starting the counter. > > Currently _write_counter refuses to run if the timer hasn't been started. > > > > So Jon: > > a/ can we change omap_dm_timer_write_counter to work when the timer isn't > > running? > > b/ can we have omap_dm_timer_set_load also set the counter? > > > > > > For anyone else generous enough to read my code: is this otherwise > > acceptable? > > Did not look beyond the dmtimer stuff, but let's start by moving dmtimer.c to > live under drivers and move the header, then do the pwm patches.
Why does the driver have to move? There is certainly some precedent for having arch-specific code in arch/ but expose the public API via some header in include/linux. Sometimes there's just no proper place for the driver elsewhere, so rather than moving it somewhere more or less random keeping it in arch/arm/plat-omap is just as good. Thierry
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