Re: [PATCH 3/7] clocksource: mips-gic: Split clocksource and clockevent initialization

From: Andrew Bresticker
Date: Thu May 21 2015 - 18:24:48 EST


On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Ezequiel Garcia
<ezequiel.garcia@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This is preparation work for the introduction of clockevent frequency
> update with a clock notifier. This is only possible when the device
> is passed a clk struct, so let's split the legacy and devicetree
> initialization.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/clocksource/mips-gic-timer.c | 13 ++++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/mips-gic-timer.c b/drivers/clocksource/mips-gic-timer.c
> index c4352f0..22a4daf 100644
> --- a/drivers/clocksource/mips-gic-timer.c
> +++ b/drivers/clocksource/mips-gic-timer.c
> @@ -142,11 +142,6 @@ static void __init __gic_clocksource_init(void)
> ret = clocksource_register_hz(&gic_clocksource, gic_frequency);
> if (ret < 0)
> pr_warn("GIC: Unable to register clocksource\n");
> -
> - gic_clockevent_init();
> -
> - /* And finally start the counter */
> - gic_start_count();
> }

Instead of duplicating this bit in both the OF and non-OF paths, maybe
it would be better to do the notifier registration in
gic_clockevent_init(), either by passing around the struct clk or
making it a global?
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