linux-kernel - Re: [rtc-linux] [RFC][PATCH 0/4] RTC: Use class devices as a persistent clock

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Message-ID: <20080507085739.4f538d2e@i1501.lan.towertech.it>
Date:	Wed, 7 May 2008 08:57:39 +0200
From:	Alessandro Zummo <alessandro.zummo@...ertech.it>
To:	rtc-linux@...glegroups.com
Cc:	macro@...ux-mips.org, Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, i2c@...sensors.org,
	linux-mips@...ux-mips.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [rtc-linux] [RFC][PATCH 0/4] RTC: Use class devices as a
 persistent clock

On Wed, 7 May 2008 01:39:59 +0100 (BST)
"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org> wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
>  While investigating why Linux on the MIPS64 Broadcom BCM91250A board (the
> SWARM, based on the SiByte BCM1250A SOC) does not support an RTC device
> anymore I discovered the "wiring" of code to access /dev/rtc to the RTC
> device driver got removed with some changes that happened a while ago.  
> The board uses the ST M41T81 I2C chip with a driver buried within the
> architecture code.  There is a standard driver for this chip in our tree
> already, which is called rtc-m41t80, and which as a part of the RTC driver
> suite provides the necessary "wiring" to /dev/rtc.

 [...]


 Hi Maciej,

   you did a great work. you have my Acked-by on the rtc/ntp code, but
 I think we'd need some reports from current users of the m41t81 driver
 before pushing that one in.


-- 

 Best regards,

 Alessandro Zummo,
  Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy

  http://www.towertech.it

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