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[82.252.135.148]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id y10sm15924202wma.5.2020.04.27.10.13.33 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 27 Apr 2020 10:13:34 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] drivers/clocksource/timer-of: Remove __init markings To: Baolin Wang , Thomas Gleixner Cc: Saravana Kannan , Orson Zhai , Chunyan Zhang , LKML , Android Kernel Team References: From: Daniel Lezcano Message-ID: Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 19:13:33 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 13/04/2020 04:55, Baolin Wang wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 1:59 PM Baolin Wang wrote: >> >> From: Saravana Kannan >> >> This allows timer drivers to be compiled as modules. >> >> Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan >> Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang > > Do you have any comments for this patch set? Thanks. If my understanding is correct, this patch is part of the GKI picture where hardware drivers are converted to modules. But do we really want to convert timer drivers to modules ? Is the core time framework able to support that (eg. load + unload ) -- Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog