linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/9] ARC: timer: gfrc: boot print alongside other timers

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Date:   Thu, 3 Nov 2016 18:51:55 +0100
From:   Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
To:     Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@...opsys.com>
Cc:     tglx@...utronix.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-snps-arc@...ts.infradead.org,
        Noam Camus <noamca@...lanox.com>, Alexey.Brodkin@...opsys.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/9] ARC: timer: gfrc: boot print alongside other timers

On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 10:47:19AM -0700, Vineet Gupta wrote:
> On 11/03/2016 10:09 AM, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 03:48:10PM -0700, Vineet Gupta wrote:
> >> Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com>
> > 
> > Why not add a message in drivers/clocksource/clksrc-probe.c when a timer inits
> > successfully ? and then get rid of this code.
> 
> At boot I have bunch of cod which prints all the major hardware blocks and thus
> would like to print it. We also print if a feature is present but not supported
> etc. So I like to keep all of that here.
> 
> Also same code is used for /proc/cpuinfo.

Ok, I see. Thanks for the clarification.