Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] timekeeping: Add CONFIG_HAS_PERSISTENT_CLOCK option

From: John Stultz
Date: Fri Jan 25 2013 - 20:07:45 EST


On 01/22/2013 11:49 AM, John Stultz wrote:
On 01/22/2013 11:44 AM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:50:18AM -0800, John Stultz wrote:
On 01/15/2013 08:09 AM, Feng Tang wrote:
Make the persistent clock check a kernel config option, so that some
platform can explicitely select it, also make CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS depends
on its non-existence, which could prevent the persistent clock and RTC
code from doing similar thing twice during system's init/suspend/resume
phases.

If the CONFIG_HAS_PERSISTENT_CLOCK=n, then no change happens for kernel
which still does the persistent clock check in timekeeping_init().

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@xxxxxxxxx>
Applied. I also added a dependency for Jason's CONFIG_RTC_SYSTOHC.
Sort of an ugly config name, since I gather ARM should always set this
to 'n'...

CONFIG_USE_ONLY_PERSISTENT_CLOCK ?
(Sigh. I got this seemingly microseconds after I sent the pull request :)

So yea, fair point, there could be some confusion. But ONLY_PERSISTENT_CLOCK isn't quite right either, more like CONFIG_HAS_PERSISTENT_CLOCK_ALWAYS or something.


Decided upon CONFIG_ALWAYS_USE_PERSISTENT_CLOCK which I think is clear enough.

Let me know if you object or have a better idea.

thanks
-john

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