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Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 01:25:00 +0900 From: Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org> To: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>, "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>, "linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>, Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] ARM: smp: Remove local timer API On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 11:15:45AM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote: > One thing that struck me when I was fiddling with the broadcast mechanism was > that it should be possible to have a generic dummy timer implementation. As > long as the architecture calls notifiers at the appropriate times, it should > look like any other timer driver (apart from not touching any hardware). It just > needs to depend on ARCH_HAS_TICK_BROADCAST. > > I believe it shouldn't be too difficult to implement, though I may be blind to > some problems. > It would be nice to have a generic dummy timer driver, quite a few architectures could use it directly already. If no one beats me to it, I'll give it a go as I convert the SH stuff over to using ARCH_HAS_TICK_BROADCAST and killing off the local timer API there. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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