Re: [PATCHv2 3/4] clockevents: Add generic timer broadcastfunction

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Mon Jan 14 2013 - 06:10:29 EST


On Wed, 9 Jan 2013, Mark Rutland wrote:
> Currently, the timer broadcast mechanism is defined by a function
> pointer on struct clock_event_device. As the fundamental mechanism for
> broadcast is architecture-specific, this means that clock_event_device
> drivers cannot be shared across multiple architectures.
>
> This patch adds an (optional) architecture-specific function for timer
> tick broadcast, allowing drivers which may require broadcast
> functionality to be shared across multiple architectures.

Looks good.

If you fixup the first one of the series, I'll take the generic
patches and provide a branch to pull for the ARM folks, so the ARM
part can go via their tree.

Thanks,

tglx
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