Re: [PATCH 3/5] Deforest the function pointer jungle in the time code.

["Franck Bui-Huu" <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>]

On 6/19/07, Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> wrote:
> For practically every type of timer there are reasons why it is may be
> undesierable such as being configured in a way that makes it undesirable
> or unusable, unpredictable clock changes and more.  So in practice only
> the platform specific code can drive the initialization of all timer
> devices and interrupts which reduces the generic code to sort of a
> library and driver collection.
Yeah that's true. If you look at time_init() arch hook after patch 5/5
is applied, you can see that it's now:

void __init time_init(void)
{
       plat_time_init();
       plat_timer_setup();
}

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              Franck