linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 00/10] acpi, clocksource: add GTDT driver and GTDT support in arm_arch

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Message-ID: <57767782.6020509@linaro.org>
Date:	Fri, 1 Jul 2016 16:00:34 +0200
From:	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>
Cc:	Fu Wei <fu.wei@...aro.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
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	Leo Duran <leo.duran@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 00/10] acpi, clocksource: add GTDT driver and GTDT
 support in arm_arch_timer

On 06/30/2016 03:27 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

[ ... ]

>> GTDT is part of ACPI spec, drivers/acpi/ is for driver code of
>> ACPI spec, I think it can stay in drivers/acpi/ from this point
>> of view, am I right?
>
> The question is not "Can it?", but "Does it need to?".
>
> It is in the spec, but still there's only one architecture needing it.
>
> There is no way to test it on any other architecture and no reason to build it
> for any other architecture, so why does it need to be located in drivers/acpi/ ?

Hi Rafael,

what is the problem of having it in drivers/acpi ?

There are cpufreq-dt, speedstep*, tegra124-* in drivers/cpufreq.

clocksource-probe which is DT based with different drivers using it in 
drivers/clocksource with a pletore of different archs.

Cstate code which is only used by x86 is in drivers/acpi, it is only 
used by x86/ia64 and it isn't a problem. There is a small chunk in 
arch/x86/kernel/acpi and it doesn't facilitate the comprehension of the 
code.

IMHO, having all ACPI code in the same directory will encourage the 
consolidation.



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