linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] timekeeping: Add CONFIG_HAS_PERSISTENT

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Date:	Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:44:33 -0700
From:	Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>
To:	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
Cc:	Feng Tang <feng.tang@...el.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@...ertech.it>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] timekeeping: Add CONFIG_HAS_PERSISTENT_CLOCK
 option

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:50:18AM -0800, John Stultz wrote:
> On 01/15/2013 08:09 AM, Feng Tang wrote:
> >Make the persistent clock check a kernel config option, so that some
> >platform can explicitely select it, also make CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS depends
> >on its non-existence, which could prevent the persistent clock and RTC
> >code from doing similar thing twice during system's init/suspend/resume
> >phases.
> >
> >If the CONFIG_HAS_PERSISTENT_CLOCK=n, then no change happens for kernel
> >which still does the persistent clock check in timekeeping_init().
> >
> >Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> >Suggested-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
> >Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@...el.com>
> 
> Applied. I also added a dependency for Jason's CONFIG_RTC_SYSTOHC.

Sort of an ugly config name, since I gather ARM should always set this
to 'n'...

CONFIG_USE_ONLY_PERSISTENT_CLOCK ?

Cheers,
Jason
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