Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751440AbbD3OKL (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Apr 2015 10:10:11 -0400 Received: from mail-yh0-f54.google.com ([209.85.213.54]:36358 "EHLO mail-yh0-f54.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751172AbbD3OKI (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Apr 2015 10:10:08 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1430390662-18246-2-git-send-email-sudeep.holla@arm.com> References: <1430390662-18246-1-git-send-email-sudeep.holla@arm.com> <1430390662-18246-2-git-send-email-sudeep.holla@arm.com> From: Rob Herring Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 09:09:47 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: w74lrMwY5rRHFtHFI55rtvt5LIs Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ARM: simplify timer initialisation and remove arm_timer.h inclusion To: Sudeep Holla Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , Russell King , Catalin Marinas , Daniel Lezcano , Thomas Gleixner , Arnd Bergmann , Olof Johansson Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 774 Lines: 16 On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 5:44 AM, Sudeep Holla wrote: > The header asm/hardware/arm_timer.h is included in various machine > specific files to access TIMER_CTRL and initialise to a known state. > However that's not required as the clock{source,event} driver timer-sp > initialises all the timer being used. I believe the idea is not to initialize the timers being used, but the ones not being used and perhaps left running by the bootloader. Cases where the interrupt is shared could cause a problem. Rob -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/