* Russell King - ARM Linux [off-list ref] [110620 02:51]:

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 02:23:34AM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:

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These will be needed when dmtimer platform init code gets split
for omap1 and omap2+. These will also be needed for separate
sys_timer init and driver init for the rest of the hardware timers
in the following patches. No functional changes.

If dmtimer.c is the only user of these definitions, then its quite correct
for them to be in there.  If not, they should be in dmtimer.h in the local
directory - they're private definitions to the .c file and so should not
be exported outside of that .c file.

There will be more patches coming to make the rest of the dmtimer
code be just a regular device driver. These inline functions will
be used by sys_timer related code, and dmtimer device driver.

This way we can make the dmtimer a loadable module and don't need
to initialize any of that early.

Tony