Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Date | Wed, 29 Jun 2016 23:32:16 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v6 00/10] acpi, clocksource: add GTDT driver and GTDT support in arm_arch_timer |
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On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 8:15 PM, <fu.wei@linaro.org> wrote: > From: Fu Wei <fu.wei@linaro.org> > > This patchset: > (1)Preparation for adding GTDT support in arm_arch_timer > 1. Move some enums and marcos to header file > 2. Add a new enum for spi type. > 3. Improve printk relevant code > > (2)Introduce ACPI GTDT parser: drivers/acpi/gtdt.c > Parse all kinds of timer in GTDT table of ACPI:arch timer, > memory-mapped timer and SBSA Generic Watchdog timer. > This driver can help to simplify all the relevant timer drivers, > and separate all the ACPI GTDT knowledge from them. > > (3)Simplify ACPI code for arm_arch_timer > > (4)Add GTDT support for ARM memory-mapped timer
GTDT is ARM-specific AFAICS.
If so, why do we need that code to reside in drivers/acpi/ ?
Thanks, Rafael
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