From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756586Ab3ANLKo (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jan 2013 06:10:44 -0500 Received: from www.linutronix.de ([62.245.132.108]:58459 "EHLO Galois.linutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755704Ab3ANLKn (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jan 2013 06:10:43 -0500 Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:10:41 +0100 (CET) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Mark Rutland cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, nico@linaro.org, will.deacon@arm.com, marc.zyngier@arm.com, john.stultz@linaro.org Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 3/4] clockevents: Add generic timer broadcast function In-Reply-To: <1357742770-15028-4-git-send-email-mark.rutland@arm.com> Message-ID: References: <1357742770-15028-1-git-send-email-mark.rutland@arm.com> <1357742770-15028-4-git-send-email-mark.rutland@arm.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (LFD 1266 2009-07-14) 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 Wed, 9 Jan 2013, Mark Rutland wrote: > Currently, the timer broadcast mechanism is defined by a function > pointer on struct clock_event_device. As the fundamental mechanism for > broadcast is architecture-specific, this means that clock_event_device > drivers cannot be shared across multiple architectures. > > This patch adds an (optional) architecture-specific function for timer > tick broadcast, allowing drivers which may require broadcast > functionality to be shared across multiple architectures. Looks good. If you fixup the first one of the series, I'll take the generic patches and provide a branch to pull for the ARM folks, so the ARM part can go via their tree. Thanks, tglx