Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 10:40:26 +0000
From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
To: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Cc: Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: kernel: Copy register_persistent_clock() to arm64
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On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 04:16:03AM +0000, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 11/06/2014 05:25 PM, Anatol Pomozov wrote:
> > +Stephen
> > 
> > This patch is for tegra20_timer that uses register_persistent_clock().
> > I did not find any way to share the same arch code for arm/arm64.
> > 
> > Actually this register_persistent_clock() does not look arm specific
> > at all. Would it be better to move it somewhere outside of arch/?
> 
> No CC to linux-tegra@ or the other Tegra maintainers?
> 
> Yes, I think it'd be best not to have arch-specific APIs, or cut/paste
> the same code into multiple places.

Agreed. This looks in no way architecture specific, and having this in
common code would be preferable to copying.

Mark.
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