Re: [RFC PATCH] ARM: clocksource: make ARM_GLOBAL_TIMER selectable

From: SÃren Brinkmann
Date: Fri Feb 26 2016 - 10:28:18 EST


On Fri, 2016-02-26 at 15:03:19 +0200, Grygorii Strashko wrote:
> On 02/05/2016 01:39 AM, SÃren Brinkmann wrote:
> > On Thu, 2016-02-04 at 15:14:47 -0800, Moritz Fischer wrote:
> >> Hi Soeren,
> >>
> >> On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 2:41 PM, SÃren Brinkmann
> >> <soren.brinkmann@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >>> But with this change the 'if !CPU_FREQ' becomes obsolete.
> >> I'm confused, could you explain that statement? You don't want people
> >> accidentally running with GT when CPU_FREQ is on, right?
> >
> > Correct. But with this Kconfig rework you can just deselect it in
> > Kconfig. The generic HAVE_GT could always be selected.
> >
>
>
> Don't know whom should i ask - but what will be the final conclusion here?
> Can it be merged?

I think we don't break anything either way. Would just be some
additional clean up to get rid of that mentioned constraint (which
doesn't really work well anyway in the multi-arch kernel). So, no real
objections to merging it from my side.

Thanks,
SÃren