Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] drivers/clocksource/timer-of: Remove __init markings | From | Daniel Lezcano <> | Date | Mon, 27 Apr 2020 22:09:08 +0200 |
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On 27/04/2020 21:04, Saravana Kannan wrote: > On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 10:13 AM Daniel Lezcano > <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> wrote: >> >> On 13/04/2020 04:55, Baolin Wang wrote: >>> Hi Daniel, >>> >>> On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 1:59 PM Baolin Wang <baolin.wang7@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> From: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com> >>>> >>>> This allows timer drivers to be compiled as modules. >>>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com> >>>> Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang7@gmail.com> >>> >>> 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 ) > > So this will mainly be used for secondary timers that the system > supports. Not for the main one that's set up during early boot for > sched timer to work. For the primary timer during boot up, we still > expect that to be the default ARM timer and don't want/expect that to > be a module (it can't be).
My question is about clockevents_config_and_register() for instance, is there a function to unregister in the core framework ?
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