Re: [PATCH 3/9] ARC: timer: gfrc: boot print alongside other timers

From: Daniel Lezcano
Date: Thu Nov 03 2016 - 13:52:13 EST


On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 10:47:19AM -0700, Vineet Gupta wrote:
> On 11/03/2016 10:09 AM, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 03:48:10PM -0700, Vineet Gupta wrote:
> >> Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Why not add a message in drivers/clocksource/clksrc-probe.c when a timer inits
> > successfully ? and then get rid of this code.
>
> At boot I have bunch of cod which prints all the major hardware blocks and thus
> would like to print it. We also print if a feature is present but not supported
> etc. So I like to keep all of that here.
>
> Also same code is used for /proc/cpuinfo.

Ok, I see. Thanks for the clarification.