Re: [PATCH 1/2] drivers/clocksource/timer-of: Remove __init markings

From: Daniel Lezcano
Date: Tue Apr 28 2020 - 14:55:54 EST


On 28/04/2020 20:23, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 12:02 AM Daniel Lezcano
> <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi Saravana,
>
> You were replying to Sandeep :)

Oh, right :)

Sorry Sandeep. Thanks for taking the time to elaborate a clear statement
of the GKI.

[ ... ]

>> That was my understanding of the GKI, thanks for confirming.
>>
>> Putting apart the non-technical aspect of these changes, the benefit I
>> see is the memory usage optimization regarding the single kernel image.
>>
>> With the ARM64 defconfig, multiple platforms and their corresponding
>> drivers are compiled-in. It results in a big kernel image which fails to
>> load because of overlapping on DT load address (or something else). When
>> that is detected, it is fine to adjust the load addresses, otherwise it
>> is painful to narrow down the root cause.
>>
>> In order to prevent this, we have to customize the defconfig each
>> version release.
>
> Sorry, I'm not sure I understand where you are going with this. Are
> you agreeing to pick up this change?

Right. I agree with the change but I would like to have Thomas opinion
on this before picking the patch.

Thomas ?


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