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Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2013 13:41:44 -0800 From: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org> To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> CC: linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] clocksource: add generic dummy timer driver On 03/07/13 06:00, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Wed, 6 Mar 2013, Stephen Boyd wrote: > >> +static int __init dummy_timer_register(void) >> +{ >> + int err = register_cpu_notifier(&dummy_timer_cpu_nb); >> + if (err) >> + return err; >> + >> + /* We won't get a call on the boot CPU, so register immediately */ >> + dummy_timer_setup(); >> + >> + return 0; >> +} >> +device_initcall(dummy_timer_register); > Are you sure that you want that to be installed unconditionally? What > about multi-platform kernels? > A dummy timer is already installed unconditionally on devices with an arm architected timer, so if this is breaking something then those devices have been broken in the 3.9 merge window. I suppose we may need to make the rating even lower if there is somebody using a clockevent with a rating below 100. My grep of the tree shows 125 as the lowest, but perhaps we want to set the rating to 1 to be safe? -- Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, hosted by The Linux Foundation -- 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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