Re: [PATCH 1/2] ARM: simplify timer initialisation and remove arm_timer.h inclusion

[Sudeep Holla]

Hi Russell,

On 18/05/15 11:40, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 09:09:47AM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 5:44 AM, Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > The header asm/hardware/arm_timer.h is included in various machine
> > > specific files to access TIMER_CTRL and initialise to a known state.
> > > However that's not required as the clock{source,event} driver timer-sp
> > > initialises all the timer being used.
> >
> > I believe the idea is not to initialize the timers being used, but the
> > ones not being used and perhaps left running by the bootloader. Cases
> > where the interrupt is shared could cause a problem.
>
> Exactly.  IMHO this code needs to stay.

Thanks for confirming.

Regards,
Sudeep
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