Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] Watchdog: introduce ARM SBSA watchdog driver

[Fu Wei]

Hi Timur.

On 22 May 2015 at 00:33, Timur Tabi <timur@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 05/21/2015 11:12 AM, Fu Wei wrote:
>>>
>>> >
>>> >Having said that, my personal preference would be for the counter
>>> >and rate to be exported through the clock subsystem (ie with
>>> >clk_get_rate). But that would still not provide the current counter
>>> >value, so maybe that isn't even possible.
>>
>> I will try to make a patch for this, If the arm maintainers don't like
>> exporting "arch_timer_get_rate();"
>>
>> But your thought is good,  the clk_get_rate is the best way to do for now
>
>
> The rate isn't the problem.  It's the current timestamp counter.  The only
> way to get that is with either arch_counter_get_cntvct() or
> arch_timer_read_counter().  I'm not sure which of the two functions is
> better.  However, arch_timer_read_counter() is really just a function
> pointer that points to arch_counter_get_cntvct().
>
> Also, clk_get_rate() only works if you have a real clk object.  I've said
> this before many times, but on my ACPI platform, there are no clk objects.
> Clocks are handled by UEFI.

Thanks for your info,
I think : right now , do what we can do, export the interface of arch_timer,
If the arm maintainers don't like this way,  we can find another way
later or find a option as plan B.

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