linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] char: rtc: remove unused rtc

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Date:   Wed, 7 Feb 2018 00:24:11 +0100
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] char: rtc: remove unused rtc_control() API

On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 11:12 PM, Alexandre Belloni
<alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com> wrote:
> Since commit 34ce71a96dcb ("ALSA: timer: remove legacy rtctimer"), the
> rtc_register/rtc_control/rtc_unregister API is unused. As it is highly
> unlikely to be needed again, remove it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>
> ---

Nice!

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

I forgot what's stopping us from removing the rest of that driver ;-)
Since we can only build it on alpha and mips/loongson64 these
days, is there anything that this driver does that the normal
one doesn't? If it's just a question of testing, we could probably
just move it to staging and see if anyone notices a difference.