linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/6] clocksource: em_sti: Migrate to new 'set-state' interface

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Date:	Thu, 11 Jun 2015 17:53:11 +0200
From:	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
To:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CC:	linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] clocksource: em_sti: Migrate to new 'set-state' interface

On 06/08/2015 03:40 PM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> Migrate em_sti driver to the new 'set-state' interface provided by
> the clockevents core, the earlier 'set-mode' interface is marked
> obsolete now.
>
> This also enables us to implement callbacks for new states of clockevent
> devices, for example: ONESHOT_STOPPED.
>
> NOTE: This also drops a special check:
>
> 	if (old_mode == CLOCK_EVT_MODE_ONESHOT)
> 		em_sti_stop(p, USER_CLOCKEVENT);
>
> as it doesn't look like that important. This driver only supports
> ONESHOT and we can only move only to SHUTDOWN from ONESHOT and.
> Also on second call (on shutdown), em_sti_stop() would return without
> disabling the device again.
>
> Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
> ---

Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>

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