linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2 0/7] clockevent: Migrate to new 'set-state' interface

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Date:	Thu, 18 Jun 2015 11:14:35 +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,
	Andres Salomon <dilinger@...ued.net>,
	bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
	Lee Jones <lee@...nel.org>,
	Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@...il.com>,
	Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
	Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@...com>,
	Patrice Chotard <patrice.chotard@...com>,
	Ray Jui <rjui@...adcom.com>,
	Scott Branden <sbranden@...adcom.com>,
	Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...il.com>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 0/7] clockevent: Migrate to new 'set-state' interface

On 06/18/2015 11:10 AM, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> On 06/12/2015 10:00 AM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
>> Hi Thomas/Daniel,
>>
>> I have incorporated all the improvements Daniel suggested on V1 and so
>> here is V2.
>>
>> The first patch allows set-state callbacks to be optional, otherwise it
>> leads to unnecessary noop callbacks for drivers which don't want to
>> implement them. Over that, these noop-callbacks result in full function
>> calls for nothing really useful.
>>
>> Rest of the series converts few clockevent drivers to the new set-state
>> interface. This would enable these drivers to use new states (like:
>> ONESHOT_STOPPED, etc.) of a clockevent device (if required), as the
>> set-mode interface is marked obsolete now and wouldn't be expanded to
>> handle new states.
>>
>> Once all the drivers are migrated to the new interface in future, we can
>> remove the code supporting '->mode' in clockevents core.
>>
>> Drivers converted in this series are selected based on the diff they
>> generate. These are different diffs we shall have for most of the
>> drivers and any suggestions/improvements for these patches will be
>> applied to other drivers as well.
>>
>> This is based of latest tip/master from few days back due to dependency
>> on clockevent_state_*() helpers.
>
> Applied to my tree for 3.5

Pfff, 4.3

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