Re: [PATCH 1/2] drivers/clocksource/timer-of: Remove __init markings

[Daniel Lezcano]

On 13/04/2020 04:55, Baolin Wang wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 1:59 PM Baolin Wang <baolin.wang7@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> From: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> This allows timer drivers to be compiled as modules.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang7@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Do you have any comments for this patch set? Thanks.

If my understanding is correct, this patch is part of the GKI picture
where hardware drivers are converted to modules.

But do we really want to convert timer drivers to modules ?

Is the core time framework able to support that (eg. load + unload )


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