Re: 4.4.1 regression from 4.1.x: Soekris net5501 crash in IRQ after mfgpt timer initialization

[Nix]

On 2 Feb 2016, Thomas Gleixner verbalised:

> On Tue, 2 Feb 2016, Nix wrote:
>> The fairly trivial code motion below also seems to work, and may be more
>> like an actual fix, though I'm a bit horrified that it's this simple. I
>> may well have moved too much and unknowingly violated some invariant.
>
> I was lazy and did not do this, because it wreckages the error pathes. So I
> went for the workaround in the hope that the authors of that stuff will take
> care :)

Oh true.

As far as I can tell, getting this right requires a function that
reverses the effect of clockevents_config_and_register(), which does not
appear to exist yet :( everything else appears more or less
reversible...

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