Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezc...@linaro.org> writes: >> Good question. >> >> Maybe not, I followed the same rationale as in orion-timer, which is : >> - as this timer is the only possible timer for PXA boards, and because >> without >> it the kernel boot will stall (scheduling will be blocked), it's better to >> panic early that to remain stalled. > > There isn't the arm global timer ? Nope, it's for Cortex-A9 AFAIK, and my poor platform is an old ARMv5 SoC.
> >> Isn't this a good approach ? > > I suppose we can live with that. IMO, the right fix would be in clksrc-of to > pr_crit a message when an initialization fails. But that means to change all > the > init functions for all drivers which is out of the scope of this patchset. OK, you convinced me. I'll trade the panic() for a pr_crit(). Good idea, maybe it will trigger a quest of a white knight for the other drivers :) Cheers. -- Robert -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
