Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Jul 2016 16:23:40 +0100 | From | Will Deacon <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v6 00/10] acpi, clocksource: add GTDT driver and GTDT support in arm_arch_timer |
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On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 09:48:02PM +0800, Hanjun Guo wrote: > On 2016/6/30 21:27, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > >On Thursday, June 30, 2016 10:10:02 AM Hanjun Guo wrote: > >>GTDT is part of ACPI spec, drivers/acpi/ is for driver code of > >>ACPI spec, I think it can stay in drivers/acpi/ from this point > >>of view, am I right? > > > >The question is not "Can it?", but "Does it need to?". > > > >It is in the spec, but still there's only one architecture needing it. > > > >There is no way to test it on any other architecture and no reason to build it > >for any other architecture, so why does it need to be located in drivers/acpi/ ? > > I'm fine to move it to other places such as arch/arm64/kernel/, but I > would like to ask ARM64 maintainer's suggestion for this. > > Will, Catalin, what's your opinion on this?
We don't have any device-tree code for the architected timer under arch/arm64, so I don't see why we should need anything for ACPI either.
Will
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