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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86: enable rtc-efi
On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 07:46:35AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:

> Having thought some more about this, I don't think this should be
> handled in the RTC driver. Instead, arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c ought
> to be handling this - also for all other eventual callers of the time
> related calls. In other words, the bug has been existing before my
> patch (and it just exposes it by introducing callers of the incompletely
> implemented backing functions).

I'm in the process of removing this code from arch/x86, since it's
functionally identical to the IA64 version. That's probably going to
complicate this approach a little, but you're right that it makes sense
for the locking to be at the backend rather than in rtc-efi.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org


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