On Wednesday, May 13, 2015 05:13:27 PM Kevin Hilman wrote: > On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 5:16 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <r...@rjwysocki.net> wrote: > > On Wednesday, May 13, 2015 03:59:55 PM Kevin Hilman wrote: > >> "Rafael J. Wysocki" <r...@rjwysocki.net> writes: > >> > >> [...] > >> > >> > Second, quite honestly, I don't see a connection to genpd here. > >> > >> The connection with genpd is because the *reason* the timer was > >> shutdown/stopped is because it shares power with the CPU, which is why > >> the timer stops when the CPU hits ceratin low power states. IOW, it's > >> in the same power domain as the CPU. > > > > Well, what if you don't have genpd on that system? Is the problem at hand > > not > > relevant then magically? > > Well, if you're not using genpd to model hardware power domain > dependencies, then yes you'll definitely need a different solution. > > And, as we discussed on IRC. If you only care about timers, and genpd > is not in use, then $SUBJECT series is a fine approach, and I have no > objections. But for SoCs where there are several other things that > share power with CPU, we need a more generic, genpd based solution, > which it seems we're in agreement on. And since the two approaches > are not mutually exclusive, then I have real objections to applying > this series.
I guess a "no" is missing in the last sentence. ;-) > Acked-by: Kevin Hilman <khil...@linaro.org> Thanks! Rafael _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
