From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751911AbcFWIfe (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jun 2016 04:35:34 -0400 Received: from www.linutronix.de ([62.245.132.108]:46715 "EHLO Galois.linutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751840AbcFWIfb (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jun 2016 04:35:31 -0400 Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 10:33:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Pratyush Anand cc: mingo@kernel.org, alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com, rtc-linux@googlegroups.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, prarit@redhat.com, Andy Lutomirski , Borislav Petkov , "H. Peter Anvin" , Ingo Molnar , Jan Beulich , Viresh Kumar , "maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)" Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] rtc/hpet: Factorize hpet_rtc_timer_init() In-Reply-To: <076fc9f526af98a2ce7e68897378213271d40519.1466484019.git.panand@redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <076fc9f526af98a2ce7e68897378213271d40519.1466484019.git.panand@redhat.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (DEB 23 2013-08-11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Linutronix-Spam-Score: -1.0 X-Linutronix-Spam-Level: - X-Linutronix-Spam-Status: No , -1.0 points, 5.0 required, ALL_TRUSTED=-1,SHORTCIRCUIT=-0.0001 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 21 Jun 2016, Pratyush Anand wrote: > This patch factorize hpet_rtc_timer_init(), so that counter can be > initialized before irq is registered. This changelog is useless. It tells what the patch does, but not WHY this is required. Thanks, tglx