Re: [PATCH] clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Remove omap_dm_timer_set_load_start

From: Ladislav Michl
Date: Wed Mar 27 2019 - 04:11:48 EST


Hello Nathan,

On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 10:01:27PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> Commit 008258d995a6 ("clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Make
> omap_dm_timer_set_load_start() static") made omap_dm_time_set_load_start
> static because its prototype was not defined in a header. Unfortunately,
> this causes a build warning on multi_v7_defconfig because this function
> is not used anywhere in this translation unit:
>
> drivers/clocksource/timer-ti-dm.c:589:12: error: unused function
> 'omap_dm_timer_set_load_start' [-Werror,-Wunused-function]
>
> In fact, omap_dm_timer_set_load_start hasn't been used anywhere since
> commit f190be7f39a5 ("staging: tidspbridge: remove driver") and the
> prototype was removed in commit 592ea6bd1fad ("clocksource: timer-ti-dm:
> Make unexported functions static"), which is probably where this should
> have happened.

Alternatively you might want to look at "clocksource: timer-ti-dm: Add event
capture": https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10237217/ (it makes use of
function being removed here). It is a part of an attempt to add event capture
for OMAP. Of course I would like this functionality to be implemented, but
as I do not have a time to continue, I cannot really object removing this
function.

Just in case you'd be interested in finishing this task ;-)

ladis

> Fixes: 592ea6bd1fad ("clocksource: timer-ti-dm: Make unexported functions static")
> Fixes: 008258d995a6 ("clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Make omap_dm_timer_set_load_start() static")
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> My apologies if this has already been sent, I didn't see anything in tip
> or on LKML.
>
> drivers/clocksource/timer-ti-dm.c | 28 ----------------------------
> 1 file changed, 28 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/timer-ti-dm.c b/drivers/clocksource/timer-ti-dm.c
> index 3352da6ed61f..ee8ec5a8cb16 100644
> --- a/drivers/clocksource/timer-ti-dm.c
> +++ b/drivers/clocksource/timer-ti-dm.c
> @@ -585,34 +585,6 @@ static int omap_dm_timer_set_load(struct omap_dm_timer *timer, int autoreload,
> return 0;
> }
>
> -/* Optimized set_load which removes costly spin wait in timer_start */
> -static int omap_dm_timer_set_load_start(struct omap_dm_timer *timer,
> - int autoreload, unsigned int load)
> -{
> - u32 l;
> -
> - if (unlikely(!timer))
> - return -EINVAL;
> -
> - omap_dm_timer_enable(timer);
> -
> - l = omap_dm_timer_read_reg(timer, OMAP_TIMER_CTRL_REG);
> - if (autoreload) {
> - l |= OMAP_TIMER_CTRL_AR;
> - omap_dm_timer_write_reg(timer, OMAP_TIMER_LOAD_REG, load);
> - } else {
> - l &= ~OMAP_TIMER_CTRL_AR;
> - }
> - l |= OMAP_TIMER_CTRL_ST;
> -
> - __omap_dm_timer_load_start(timer, l, load, timer->posted);
> -
> - /* Save the context */
> - timer->context.tclr = l;
> - timer->context.tldr = load;
> - timer->context.tcrr = load;
> - return 0;
> -}
> static int omap_dm_timer_set_match(struct omap_dm_timer *timer, int enable,
>