Subject: [GIT PULL]clocksource: dw_apb_timer_of: Fix read_sched_clock

From: [email-masked] (Daniel Lezcano)
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 18:09:26 +0200

On 10/07/2013 05:27 PM, dinguyen at altera.com wrote:
> From: Dinh Nguyen <[email-masked]>
>
> Hi Thomas, John,
>
> I am hoping you can pull in these 2 patches. These 2 patches have been floating
> around for almost 2 months now. They are needed to get the Altera SOCFPGA
> booting again because of a DTS binding change in 3.12.
>
> The other change was correctly return the current clock counter.
>
> The discussion thread can be found here:
>
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2013-September/198818.html
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2013-September/198903.html
>
> This patch does not attempt or change the behaviour of the ordering of how a
> clocksource or clockevent is use. These 2 patches only enables a platform to boot.

John,

I agree with Dinh, these patches fixes a boot issue on Altera SOCFPGA 
and should be merged.

Thanks
   -- Daniel

> The following changes since commit 272b98c6455f00884f0350f775c5342358ebb73f:
>
>    Linux 3.12-rc1 (2013-09-16 16:17:51 -0400)
>
> are available in the git repository at:
>
>    git://git.rocketboards.org/linux-socfpga-next.git tags/dw_apb_timer_fix_for_jstultz
>
> for you to fetch changes up to c3c3e0d0fee2f4e1a9897094107dd8eae87503fb:
>
>    clocksource: dw_apb_timer_of: Fix read_sched_clock (2013-10-07 09:57:15 -0500)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> dw_apb_timer changes:
> 	- Move defines from dw_apb_timer.c to include/linux/dw_apb_timer.h
> 	- The dw_apb_timer implementation is a countdown timer. Fix the code
> 		to return the correct current counter.
> 	- Add backwards compatibilty for deprecated "snps,dw-apb-timer-osc"
> 		and "snps,dw-apb-timer-sp"
> 	- Add compatiblity for "snps,dw-apb-timer". This is the new binding
> 		to be used going forward.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Dinh Nguyen (2):
>        clocksource: dw_apb_timer: Move timer defines to header file.
>        clocksource: dw_apb_timer_of: Fix read_sched_clock
>
>   drivers/clocksource/dw_apb_timer.c    |   19 -------------------
>   drivers/clocksource/dw_apb_timer_of.c |    9 +++++----
>   include/linux/dw_apb_timer.h          |   19 +++++++++++++++++++
>   3 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
>

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