+Stephen who has worked on this code. On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Måns Rullgård <m...@mansr.com> wrote: > 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.)
Adding a ptr to the callback seems fine to me. Rob -- 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
