linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/26] ARM: nomadik: move mtu setup to clocksource init

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Date:	Fri, 20 Sep 2013 22:51:56 +0200
From:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:	Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com>
Cc:	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Alessandro Rubini <rubini@...pv.it>,
	STEricsson <STEricsson_nomadik_linux@...t.st.com>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/26] ARM: nomadik: move mtu setup to clocksource init

On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Linus Walleij
<linus.walleij@...aro.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 7:53 PM, Sebastian Hesselbarth
> <sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com> wrote:
>
>> MTU timer initialization is stuffed into .init_time callback, while
>> cpu8815_timer_init_of again maps addresses from the same device node.
>> Therefore, this patch moves mtu setup from to clocksource init.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com>
>
> Another happy Nomadik user? Or are you just compile testing
> this?
>
> Actually, this is superceded and collides with this pending fix:
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-arm-kernel&m=137910161418706&w=2
>
> We should wait for that to hit mainline and then see what we want
> to do with this.

By the way - this can *definately* not be moved into the MTU
driver as it is pertaining to clocks, not the timer using it.

As nmdk_timer_init() can also be called from the ux500 which
does not want to do this, things get broken for ux500.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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