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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 05/26] clocksource: Add driver for the Ingenic JZ47xx
 OST
To:     Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>,
        Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net>
Cc:     Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
        Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
        Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>,
        James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
        Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@collabora.co.uk>,
        PrasannaKumar Muralidharan <prasannatsmkumar@gmail.com>,
        linux-pwm@vger.kernel.org,
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        linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-clk@vger.kernel.org, od@zcrc.me,
        Maarten ter Huurne <maarten@treewalker.org>
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From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
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On 1/23/19 4:58 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 11:09 PM Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net> wrote:
>>
>> From: Maarten ter Huurne <maarten@treewalker.org>
>>
>> OST is the OS Timer, a 64-bit timer/counter with buffered reading.
>>
>> SoCs before the JZ4770 had (if any) a 32-bit OST; the JZ4770 and
>> JZ4780 have a 64-bit OST.
>>
>> This driver will register both a clocksource and a sched_clock to the
>> system.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Maarten ter Huurne <maarten@treewalker.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net>
>> ---
>>
>> Notes:
>>       v5: New patch
>>
>>       v6: - Get rid of SoC IDs; pass pointer to ingenic_ost_soc_info as
>>             devicetree match data instead.
>>           - Use device_get_match_data() instead of the of_* variant
>>           - Handle error of dev_get_regmap() properly
>>
>>       v7: Fix section mismatch by using builtin_platform_driver_probe()
>>
>>       v8: builtin_platform_driver_probe() does not work anymore in
>>           4.20-rc6? The probe function won't be called. Work around this
>>           for now by using late_initcall.
>>

Did anyone notice this ? Either something is wrong with the driver, or
with the kernel core. Hacking around it seems like the worst possible
"solution".

Guenter