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SubjectRe: Problem due to removing ppc64 rtc.c?
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 15:45 +0530, Sripathi Kodi wrote:
>
>>
>> Before your changes, rtc_ioctl was implemented in the PPC specific rtc.c and
>> it used to call ppc_md.get_rtc_time for RTC_RD_TIME, which I think used to
>> end up in rtas_get_rtc_time. After your changes, time is now read in
>> rtc_get_rtc_time using CMOS_READ calls, which apparently is resulting in wrong
>> values being read. I changed rtc_do_ioctl to make it call rtas_get_rtc_time
>> for RTC_RD_TIME call and the problem went away.
>>
>> Have I missed something or does this need fixing? Do we really need a PPC
>> specific rtc_ioctl call that calls into rtas_get_rtc_time?
>
> I think the problem is that you still have CONFIG_RTC in your .config
> instead of CONFIG_GEN_RTC
>
> Ben.

Yes, that was indeed the problem. Thanks a lot.

-Sripathi.
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