linux-kernel - Re: char: legacy RTC cleanups

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Date:	Wed, 27 Apr 2016 12:07:29 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...e-electrons.com>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	tony.luck@...el.com, geert@...ux-m68k.org, jejb@...isc-linux.org,
	deller@....de, benh@...nel.crashing.org, mpe@...erman.id.au,
	dalias@...c.org, dhowells@...hat.com,
	yasutake.koichi@...panasonic.com, rth@...ddle.net,
	ink@...assic.park.msu.ru, linux-alpha@...r.kernel.org,
	x86@...nel.org, a.zummo@...ertech.it, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org, linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-sh@...r.kernel.org,
	rtc-linux@...glegroups.com, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: char: legacy RTC cleanups

On Wednesday 27 April 2016 11:44:10 Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> On 26/04/2016 at 23:44:04 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote :
> > I've had these patches in my tree for a while, after the first one
> > had a few issues that are fixed in this new version. The old-style
> > PC RTC driver is now also disabled on m68k (as pointed out by
> > Geert), ppc (it was also blacklisted), and m32r (I showed that
> > it did not build).
> > 
> > For the genrtc driver, rearranging the headers makes it simpler
> > to use and reduces duplication. In case of alpha and mn10300,
> > I've shown that the genrtc and rtc drivers are doing the same
> > thing, so we don't need them both. The remaining three
> > architectures (m68k, parisc, powerpc) actually all support
> > the newer rtc-generic driver, so we could remove genrtc completely
> > if we want to.
> > 
> 
> Personally, I'd go for the kill and remove genrtc instead of cleaning it up.

Right, so we could skip patches 5 and 6, and instead remove the two
headers as we remove the driver. Let's see what the architecture
maintainers think about it, at least powerpc actually enables gen_rtc
in its defconfig, so it might take a while to move it over.

	Arnd