Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Jul 2011 08:09:52 +0100 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: [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.
-- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
| |