Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2015 10:42:07 +0200 (CEST)
From: Paul Osmialowski <pawelo@king.net.pl>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/9] arm: twr-k70f120m: timer driver for Kinetis SoC
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Hi Thomas,

On Wed, 1 Jul 2015, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

>> +		clockevents_register_device(
>> +				&kinetis_clockevent_tmrs[chan].evtdev);
>> +
>> +		kinetis_pit_init(&kinetis_clockevent_tmrs[chan],
>> +						(rate / HZ) - 1);
>> +		kinetis_pit_enable(&kinetis_clockevent_tmrs[chan], 1);
>
> No point doing this. The core code has invoked the set_periodic call
> back via clockevents_register_device() already.
>

As I removed this kinetis_pit_enable() line, the timer did not start, 
therefore the system became unusable. What could be possible reason for 
that?
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