linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2 2/2] ARM: tegra: move timer.c to drivers/clocksource/

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Date:	Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:17:11 +0100
From:	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>
To:	Josh Cartwright <josh.cartwright@...il.com>
Cc:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>,
	John Stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dia.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org, Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 2/2] ARM: tegra: move timer.c to drivers/clocksource/

Josh,

On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:50:36 -0600, Josh Cartwright wrote:

> I had suggested this with Thomas Petazzoni's consolidated irq_chip patch
> as well:
> 
> It seems like it would be a bit cleaner/easier to maintain if we relied
> on the linker to stitch together a clksrc_of_match table, based on what
> clocksources are being built into the image.  With that approach, at
> least, a public initialization header wouldn't have to be exposed, and
> this central table wouldn't have to be maintained (as more clocksrcs are
> added, I forsee [admittedly trivial] merge conflicts).

... and I indeed have a new version of my irqchip patches that indeed
use the linker to merge together the of_device_id entries!

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
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development, consulting, training and support.
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