Hi Rafael,
On 2016/6/30 9:37, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
On Thursday, June 30, 2016 09:29:59 AM Fu Wei wrote:
Hi Rafael,
On 30 June 2016 at 05:32, Rafael J. Wysocki rafael@kernel.org wrote:
On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 8:15 PM, fu.wei@linaro.org wrote:
From: Fu Wei fu.wei@linaro.org
This patchset: (1)Preparation for adding GTDT support in arm_arch_timer 1. Move some enums and marcos to header file 2. Add a new enum for spi type. 3. Improve printk relevant code
(2)Introduce ACPI GTDT parser: drivers/acpi/gtdt.c Parse all kinds of timer in GTDT table of ACPI:arch timer, memory-mapped timer and SBSA Generic Watchdog timer. This driver can help to simplify all the relevant timer drivers, and separate all the ACPI GTDT knowledge from them. (3)Simplify ACPI code for arm_arch_timer (4)Add GTDT support for ARM memory-mapped timerGTDT is ARM-specific AFAICS.
yes, you are right, it is.
If so, why do we need that code to reside in drivers/acpi/ ?
Although the GTDT is just for ARM64, but this driver is parsing one of ACPI table, I think that could be treated as ACPI driver. Do I miss something? :-)
Yes, you are. Nobody except for ARM64 will ever need it.
GTDT is part of ACPI spec, drivers/acpi/ is for driver code of ACPI spec, I think it can stay in drivers/acpi/ from this point of view, am I right?
Thanks Hanjun