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Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 14:53:45 +0100
From: Alessandro Zummo <alessandro.zummo@...ertech.it>
To: rtc-linux@...glegroups.com
Cc: Geert.Uytterhoeven@...ycom.com,
Richard Zidlicky <rz@...ux-m68k.org>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org,
Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Kyle McMartin <kyle@...artin.ca>,
Linux/PPC Development <linuxppc-dev@...abs.org>,
Linux/m68k <linux-m68k@...r.kernel.org>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [rtc-linux] Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/5] Generic RTC class driver
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 11:41:23 +0100 (CET)
Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@...ycom.com> wrote:
> rtc-generic is already in the kernel, it's just called rtc-parisc ;-)
Really? I never saw it :)
> > But I'd strongly suggest to plan and execute a conversion process.
>
> So would you accept a patch series that:
> 1. Adds the missing module aliases to rtc-parisc (which is a bugfix),
> 2. Moves the platform device creation out of rtc-ppc and into arch-specific
> code (which is also a bugfix),
> 3. Consolidates rtc-parisc and rtc-ppc into rtc-generic (which is a cleanup),
> 4. Makes rtc-generic dependent on PARISC, PPC, and M68K (the existing
> [sg]et_rtc_time() users):
> a. without introducing ARCH_HAS_GENERIC_RTC,
> b. with a big fat warning in the Kconfig comment not relaxing the
> dependencies, as it's supposed to go away.
> 4. Converts the PS3 RTC support into a separate driver, called rtc-ps3
> (as a bonus ;-)
>
> ? If yes, I'll cook it up.
>
> Other RTC platform support can be converted into separate drivers later.
Seems reasonable. But please add a list of users of rtc-generic and information
about their respective rtc hardware along with some general planning about
which future driver would cover which users.
And let's hope this is a beginning :)
--
Best regards,
Alessandro Zummo,
Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy
http://www.towertech.it
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