linux-kernel - Re: arm: at91: do not disable/enable clocks in a row

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Date:	Thu, 17 Mar 2016 19:09:49 +0100
From:	Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...e-electrons.com>
To:	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...e-electrons.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org,
	Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...el.com>
Subject: Re: arm: at91: do not disable/enable clocks in a row

On 09/03/2016 at 10:58:24 +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote :
> * Alexandre Belloni | 2016-03-08 19:39:10 [+0100]:
> 
> >Hi,
> Hi,
> 
> >Both are things to work on. In the mean time, I'm using the following
> >patch:
> >https://github.com/alexandrebelloni/linux/commit/3a2eae463fce18ae815b887a5c9ca1a657b180ac
> >
> >I understood from
> >http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1601.2/00941.html that this
> >was not your preferred course of action.
> 
> That was one thing.  What about this:
> 
> ---
> 
> Currently the driver will disable the clock and enable it one line later
> if it is switching from periodic mode into one shot.
> This can be avoided and causes a needless warning on -RT.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>

I'm fine with that if you don't want to rely on the clock event state
machine.

Can you submit it to the mainline with:
Tested-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...e-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...e-electrons.com>


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Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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