staging: comedi: comedi_8254: introduce module for 8254 timer support
A 8254 timer/counter is commonly used on data acquisition boards to provide the internal pacer clock used to acquire analog input samples. Some boards also to allow the timers to be used externally. Currently the 8254 timers are supported by comedi using the 8253.h header and a number of inline functions. This works for the internal pacer clock but requires the drivers to implement subdevice code necessary to use the timers externally. Introduce a new module to support both the internal pacer clock and the external counter subdevice. This will allow removing a bunch of duplicated code in the drivers and standardizes the comedi 8254 timer support. This implementation is based on the 8253.h inline functions and the various subdevice functionality in the comedi drivers. Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com> Reviewed-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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