Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Mar 2009 14:53:45 +0100 | From | Alessandro Zummo <> | Subject | Re: [rtc-linux] Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/5] Generic RTC class driver |
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On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 11:41:23 +0100 (CET) Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> wrote:
> rtc-generic is already in the kernel, it's just called rtc-parisc ;-)
Really? I never saw it :)
> > But I'd strongly suggest to plan and execute a conversion process. > > So would you accept a patch series that: > 1. Adds the missing module aliases to rtc-parisc (which is a bugfix), > 2. Moves the platform device creation out of rtc-ppc and into arch-specific > code (which is also a bugfix), > 3. Consolidates rtc-parisc and rtc-ppc into rtc-generic (which is a cleanup), > 4. Makes rtc-generic dependent on PARISC, PPC, and M68K (the existing > [sg]et_rtc_time() users): > a. without introducing ARCH_HAS_GENERIC_RTC, > b. with a big fat warning in the Kconfig comment not relaxing the > dependencies, as it's supposed to go away. > 4. Converts the PS3 RTC support into a separate driver, called rtc-ps3 > (as a bonus ;-) > > ? If yes, I'll cook it up. > > Other RTC platform support can be converted into separate drivers later.
Seems reasonable. But please add a list of users of rtc-generic and information about their respective rtc hardware along with some general planning about which future driver would cover which users.
And let's hope this is a beginning :)
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Best regards,
Alessandro Zummo, Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy
http://www.towertech.it
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