Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Dec 2013 13:01:36 -0500 | From | Jason Cooper <> | Subject | Re: Can someone Ack and queue a patch for RTC subsytem? |
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On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 06:40:24PM +0100, Alessandro Zummo wrote: > On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 18:28:16 +0100 arno@natisbad.org (Arnaud Ebalard) wrote: > > At some point, Alessandro Zummo wrote: ... > > > I do not maintain a separate tree due to most RTCs being specifit to a > > > subsytem. > > > > I do not understand: the chip is generic, i.e. this is not a RTC chip > > specific to a given SoC (like rtc-mv.c is for instance). Can you be > > more specific? > > Yes, this chip is generic, but most aren't. Some of those who > are generic, are strictly connected to a particular system/board, > and they end up in that system's tree. Most of the drivers > are pretty small.
That goes against the whole goal of the arm-soc devicetree conversion. For the past several years, we've been moving drivers _out_ of arch/arm/ into the appropriate drivers/ area. The goal of this was to unclutter arch/arm/, and to more readily see and remove code duplication by drivers.
thx,
Jason.
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