linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/9] clocksource: dw_apb_timer: quirk for inverted int mask

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1307060150030.32106@ionos.tec.linutronix.de>
Date:	Sat, 6 Jul 2013 01:51:54 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Heiko Stübner <heiko@...ech.de>
cc:	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
	Jamie Iles <jamie@...ieiles.com>,
	Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@...era.com>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Rob Herring <rob.herring@...xeda.com>,
	devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
	Ulrich Prinz <ulrich.prinz@...glemail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/9] clocksource: dw_apb_timer: quirk for inverted int
 mask

On Sat, 6 Jul 2013, Heiko Stübner wrote:

> Some timer variants use an inverted setting to mask the timer interrupt.
> Therefore add a quirk to handle these variants.

And by that add even more pointless conditionals into critical code
pathes.