Re: [PATCH] clockevents/drivers/i8253: Do not zero timer counter in shutdown

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Thu, Aug 01 2024 at 21:49, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2024-08-01 at 22:00 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> > I justify my cowardice on the basis that it doesn't *matter* if a
>> > hardware implementation is still toggling the IRQ pin; in that case
>> > it's only a few irrelevant transistors which are busy, and it doesn't
>> > translate to steal time.
>> 
>> On real hardware it translates to power...
>
> Perhaps, although I'd guess it's a negligible amount. Still, happy to
> be brave and make it unconditional. Want a new version of the patch?

Let'ss fix the shutdown sequence first (See Michaels latest mail) and
then do the clockevents_i8253_init() change on top.

Thanks,

        tglx