| Date | Tue, 26 Mar 2019 22:11:16 +0100 (CET) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH v2 05/14] x86/hpet: Relocate flag definitions to a header file |
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On Wed, 27 Feb 2019, Ricardo Neri wrote:
> Users of HPET timers (such as the hardlockup detector) need the definitions > of these flags to interpret the configuration of a timer as passed by > platform code.
Which platform code?
> +#define HPET_DEV_USED_BIT 2 > +#define HPET_DEV_USED (1 << HPET_DEV_USED_BIT) > +#define HPET_DEV_VALID 0x8 > +#define HPET_DEV_FSB_CAP 0x1000 > +#define HPET_DEV_PERI_CAP 0x2000
I'm not seing why you would need any of those in the watchdog code.
The only function related to the watchdog which needs these is hpet_hardlockup_detector_assign_timer() and that is located in hpet.c itself.
Thanks,
tglx
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