Måns Rullgård <m...@mansr.com> writes: > Rob Herring <robherri...@gmail.com> writes: > >> On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 11:47 AM, Måns Rullgård <m...@mansr.com> wrote: >>> What would be a proper way to select a sched_clock source? I realise >>> it's a Linux-specific thing and DT is supposed to be generic, but the >>> information must be provided somehow. >> >> The kernel already has some logic to do this. Most number of bits >> followed by highest frequency will be the winning sched_clock. You >> might also want to look at things like always on or not. > > The problem is that sched_clock_register() doesn't take a pointer to be > passed back to the read_sched_clock callback like most interfaces of > this type do. This means the callback must use global variables set up > before the register call, but at that time there's no way of knowing > which one will be used. If there were a way of getting a pointer to the > callback, it would be a simple matter of registering all instances and > letting the kernel choose which to use.
Anyone got a comment on this? Do I have to send a patch adding this before anyone will tell me why it's a bad idea? (That method almost always works.) -- Måns Rullgård m...@mansr.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
