Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757355AbXERU1o (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 May 2007 16:27:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752625AbXERU1g (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 May 2007 16:27:36 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:53326 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756173AbXERU1c (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 May 2007 16:27:32 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 13:27:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20070518.132734.34602464.davem@davemloft.net> To: galak@kernel.crashing.org Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, matt@genesi-usa.com, sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, r.schwebel@pengutronix.de Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.21-rt2] PowerPC: decrementer clockevent driver From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <32E780BE-58B7-4303-AA49-1852C4C7EB50@kernel.crashing.org> References: <464DB800.40702@genesi-usa.com> <1179499713.12981.75.camel@chaos> <32E780BE-58B7-4303-AA49-1852C4C7EB50@kernel.crashing.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.1.52 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 717 Lines: 16 From: Kumar Gala Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 11:31:19 -0500 > I asked this earlier, but figured you might have a better insight. > Is their value in having 'drivers' for more than one clock source? > I'd say most (of not all) the PPC SoCs have timers on the system side > that we could provide drivers for, I'm just not sure if that does > anything for anyone. I'm in a similar situation on sparc64, so I'm interested in this as well :-) - 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/