Re: [PATCH 7/7] mips: pistachio: Allow to enable the external timer based clocksource

From: Andrew Bresticker
Date: Fri May 22 2015 - 12:50:23 EST


On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Ezequiel Garcia
<ezequiel.garcia@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This commit introduces a new config, so the user can choose to enable
> the General Purpose Timer based clocksource. This option is required
> to have CPUFreq support.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/mips/Kconfig | 1 +
> arch/mips/pistachio/Kconfig | 13 +++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 arch/mips/pistachio/Kconfig
>
> diff --git a/arch/mips/Kconfig b/arch/mips/Kconfig
> index f501665..91f6ca0 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/mips/Kconfig
> @@ -934,6 +934,7 @@ source "arch/mips/jazz/Kconfig"
> source "arch/mips/jz4740/Kconfig"
> source "arch/mips/lantiq/Kconfig"
> source "arch/mips/lasat/Kconfig"
> +source "arch/mips/pistachio/Kconfig"
> source "arch/mips/pmcs-msp71xx/Kconfig"
> source "arch/mips/ralink/Kconfig"
> source "arch/mips/sgi-ip27/Kconfig"
> diff --git a/arch/mips/pistachio/Kconfig b/arch/mips/pistachio/Kconfig
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..97731ea
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/arch/mips/pistachio/Kconfig
> @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
> +config PISTACHIO_GPTIMER_CLKSRC
> + bool "Enable General Purpose Timer based clocksource"
> + depends on MACH_PISTACHIO
> + select CLKSRC_PISTACHIO
> + select MIPS_EXTERNAL_TIMER

Why not just select these in the MACH_PISTACHIO Kconfig entry? Is
there any harm in always having the Pistachio GPT enabled?
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