linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 04/16] rtc: sh: provide rtc_class

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Message-ID: <CAMuHMdVP3QWvyY11sw-Y440MFpxtjcZRQ+pAP76p35qFvcye6g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 28 Apr 2016 09:21:05 +0200
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
Cc:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...e-electrons.com>,
	Helge Deller <deller@....de>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	alpha <linux-alpha@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@...ertech.it>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Parisc List <linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
	Linux-sh list <linux-sh@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-m68k <linux-m68k@...ts.linux-m68k.org>,
	RTCLINUX <rtc-linux@...glegroups.com>,
	Linux-Arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 04/16] rtc: sh: provide rtc_class_ops directly

Hi Rich,

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 1:21 AM, Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org> wrote:
> Not a complaint about your patch, but I'd like to get rid of this
> platform device and abstraction layer completely since it doesn't seem
> like something that can be modeled correctly in device tree. When
> you're done cleaning this up, will it be possible to just have rtc
> drivers that use whatever generic framework is left, where the right
> driver is automatically attached to compatible DT nodes? I'm trying to
> move all of arch/sh over to device tree and remove hard-coded platform
> devices.

If you describe the RTC in DT, it can bound to a hardware-specific driver
in drivers/rtc/rtc-*.c.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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