linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3 v2] iio: add rtc-driver for HID sensors of type time

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Message-ID: <50CECBFC.2030807@ahsoftware.de>
Date:	Mon, 17 Dec 2012 08:38:36 +0100
From:	Alexander Holler <holler@...oftware.de>
To:	Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@...ertech.it>
CC:	Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>,
	Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...23.retrosnub.co.uk>,
	Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-iio@...r.kernel.org,
	Jonathan Cameron <jic23@....ac.uk>, rtc-linux@...glegroups.com,
	srinivas pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3 v2] iio: add rtc-driver for HID sensors of type time

Am 16.12.2012 23:15, schrieb Alessandro Zummo:
> On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:40:01 +0100
> Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de> wrote:
>
>>> Yes, move the header or merge into existing one as makes sense.
>>> I'm not pulling this driver into the IIO tree (unless for some
>>> reason Alessandro wants me to and I can't think why he would...).
>>>
>>
>> Alessandro has been pretty quiet for quite some time now. Luckily Andrew
>> Morton usually picks up the stuff for orphaned subsystems. So put him on Cc
>> for v4.
>
>   Still reading e-mails ;) Andrew monitors the rtc mailing list and picks up
>   the patches that do not need to go in any arch's main tree, which is the suggested
>   way as, with modern chipsets, the RTCs shares hw with many other drivers.

Reading just the latest patch (v5) might be faster. ;)

It basically doesn't do much. On call of read_time() a so called report 
with the time values (year, month, ...) is requested from the device, 
rtc_time is filled with them, done.

Regards,

Alexander
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