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SubjectRe: 2.6 must-fix list, v3
On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 03:27:12AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

> +drivers/char/rtc/
> +-----------------
> +
> +- rmk: I think we need a generic RTC driver (which is backed by real RTCs).
> + Integrator-based stuff has a 32-bit 1Hz counter RTC with alarm, as has the
> + SA11xx, and probably PXA. There's another implementation for the RiscPC
> + and ARM26 stuff. I'd rather not see 4 implementations of the RTC userspace
> + API, but one common implementation so that stuff gets done in a consistent
> + way.
> +
> + We postponed this at the beginning of 2.4 until 2.5 happened. We're now
> + at 2.5, and I'm about to add at least one more (the Integrator
> + implementation.) This isn't sane imo.

I know Geert asked, but what's wrong with the current generic RTC
driver (drivers/char/genrtc.c), and why couldn't the additional features be
added to it, ala the battery bits that went in semi-recently?

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Tom Rini
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
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