[PATCH v2 2/2] powerpc/mpic: add global timer support
Scott Wood
scottwood at freescale.com
Tue Aug 14 02:50:42 EST 2012
On 08/13/2012 01:17 AM, Li Yang-R58472 wrote:
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Wang Dongsheng-B40534
>> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 1:54 PM
>> To: Wood Scott-B07421
>> Cc: benh at kernel.crashing.org; paulus at samba.org; linuxppc-
>> dev at lists.ozlabs.org; Gala Kumar-B11780; Li Yang-R58472
>> Subject: RE: [PATCH v2 2/2] powerpc/mpic: add global timer support
>>
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Wood Scott-B07421
>>> Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 3:40 AM
>>> To: Wang Dongsheng-B40534
>>> Cc: benh at kernel.crashing.org; paulus at samba.org; linuxppc-
>>> dev at lists.ozlabs.org; Gala Kumar-B11780; Li Yang-R58472
>>> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] powerpc/mpic: add global timer support
>>>
>>> On 08/10/2012 12:54 AM, Dongsheng.wang at freescale.com wrote:
>>>> +static const struct of_device_id mpic_timer_ids[] = {
>>>> + { .compatible = "open-pic,global-timer", },
>>>> + { .compatible = "fsl,global-timer", },
>>>> + {},
>>>> +};
>>>> +
>>>> +static int __init mpic_timer_init(void) {
>>>> + struct device_node *np = NULL;
>>>> +
>>>> + for_each_node_by_type(np, "open-pic")
>>>> + if (of_match_node(mpic_timer_ids, np))
>>>> + group_init(np);
>>>> +
>>>> + if (list_empty(&group_list))
>>>> + return -ENODEV;
>>>> +
>>>> + return 0;
>>>> +}
>>>> +arch_initcall(mpic_timer_init);
>>>
>>> Oh, and don't probe by device_type.
>
> Actually it does match the compatible. The device_type is just to
> speed up the search. I don't think it's a problem unless the device
> type is not mandatory any more for defined types.
Doesn't matter (and I doubt it provides any significant speed up
compared to a search by compatible, and in any case this is not
performance critical). device_type is deprecated outside certain
specific legacy uses. Get rid of it.
-Scott
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