linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/11] MIPS: bmips: Add bcm6345-l2-timer interrupt controller

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Message-ID: <56607A5F.6090708@arm.com>
Date:	Thu, 03 Dec 2015 17:22:39 +0000
From:	Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>
To:	Simon Arlott <simon@...e.lp0.eu>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CC:	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
	MIPS Mailing List <linux-mips@...ux-mips.org>,
	Jonas Gorski <jogo@...nwrt.org>,
	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
	Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
	Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@...il.com>,
	Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@...ana.be>,
	Maxime Bizon <mbizon@...ebox.fr>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-watchdog@...r.kernel.org, Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/11] MIPS: bmips: Add bcm6345-l2-timer interrupt controller

On 01/12/15 13:02, Simon Arlott wrote:
> Add the BCM6345/BCM6318 timer as an interrupt controller so that it can be
> used by the watchdog to warn that its timer will expire soon.
> 
> Support for clocksource/clockevents is not implemented as the timer
> interrupt is not per CPU (except on the BCM6318) and the MIPS clock is
> better. This could be added later if required without changing the device
> tree binding.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <simon@...e.lp0.eu>
> ---
>  drivers/irqchip/Kconfig                |   5 +
>  drivers/irqchip/Makefile               |   1 +
>  drivers/irqchip/irq-bcm6345-l2-timer.c | 386 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 392 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/irqchip/irq-bcm6345-l2-timer.c

I'm not sure how useful it is to have a bunch of timers that are just
turned off, but from an irqchip PoV:

Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>

	M.
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