Re: [PATCH v3 5/8] ARM: at91: move the restart function to the system timer driver

[Alexandre Belloni]

On 15/01/2015 at 18:01:34 +0100, Alexandre Belloni wrote :
> > Mmh, I can't clearly explain why but I have a problem with that.
> > 
> > Can you explain why restart code falls in the clockevents driver ?
> > 
> > 
> 
> That is a temporary location before getting rid of it by writing a
> proper reset driver that will use the same syscon.
> 
> The main goal is to remove mach/at91_st.h and direct accesses to the
> system timer registers.
> 

Just to add that it was not because of laziness but to avoid a
depending on an other subsystem...

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