Re: [PATCH 0/3] clocksource/drivers: Prevent clockevent driver unbind

[Daniel Lezcano]

Hi Johan,

On 11/11/25 16:32, Johan Hovold wrote:
> Clockevents cannot be deregistered so suppress driver bind attributes to
> prevent drivers from being unbound and, for example, releasing
> underlying resources after registration.

For non architected timers, we want to be able to convert the timers as 
modules.

That's an on-going work [1].

Your series assumes we won't convert that into modules, so you do the 
conversion to builtin. But actually, there is a slow move to module 
conversion.

However, given a clockevent can not be unregistered, the 
'suppress_bind_attrs' flag makes sense for those registering one.

  -- Daniel


[1] 
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250602151853.1942521-1-daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx/

--
<http://www.linaro.org/> Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs

Follow Linaro:  <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Linaro> Facebook |
<http://twitter.com/#!/linaroorg> Twitter |
<http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog/> Blog