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Timer initialization is done during early boot way before the driver core starts processing devices and drivers. Timers initialized during this early boot period don't really need or use a struct device. However, for timers represented as device tree nodes, the struct devices are still created and sit around unused and wasting memory. This change avoid this by marking the device tree nodes as "populated" if the corresponding timer is successfully initialized. Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200111052125.238212-1-saravanak@google.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.