From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/20] clocksource / acpi: Add macro CLOCKSOURCE_ACPI_DECLARE
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 15:21:35 +0100
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        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
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On Friday 17 January 2014, Hanjun Guo wrote:
> 
> From: Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.daniel@samsung.com>
> 
> This macro does the same job as CLOCKSOURCE_OF_DECLARE. The device
> name from the ACPI timer table is matched with all the registered
> timer controllers and matching initialisation routine is invoked.

I wouldn't anticipate this infrastructure to be required. Shouldn't all
ARMv8 machines have an architected timer?

	Arnd
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