Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:17:11 +0100 | From | Thomas Petazzoni <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH V2 2/2] ARM: tegra: move timer.c to drivers/clocksource/ |
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Josh,
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:50:36 -0600, Josh Cartwright wrote:
> I had suggested this with Thomas Petazzoni's consolidated irq_chip patch > as well: > > It seems like it would be a bit cleaner/easier to maintain if we relied > on the linker to stitch together a clksrc_of_match table, based on what > clocksources are being built into the image. With that approach, at > least, a public initialization header wouldn't have to be exposed, and > this central table wouldn't have to be maintained (as more clocksrcs are > added, I forsee [admittedly trivial] merge conflicts).
... and I indeed have a new version of my irqchip patches that indeed use the linker to merge together the of_device_id entries!
Best regards,
Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com
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