linux-kernel - Re: [rtc-linux] Re: [PATCH] RTC: Add functionality to read/write rtc scratch registers

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Message-ID: <10b05dc7-74fd-8fbf-6b57-5443cf9f520b@ti.com>
Date:   Sun, 16 Jul 2017 19:19:26 +0530
From:   Keerthy <j-keerthy@...com>
To:     Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...e-electrons.com>
CC:     <linux-rtc@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-omap@...r.kernel.org>, Russ Dill <Russ.Dill@...com>
Subject: Re: [rtc-linux] Re: [PATCH] RTC: Add functionality to read/write rtc
 scratch registers



On Friday 14 July 2017 02:13 AM, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 05/05/2017 at 00:38:27 +0200, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 03/05/2017 at 11:39:34 +0530, Keerthy wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 18 April 2017 10:50 AM, Keerthy wrote:
>>>> From: Russ Dill <Russ.Dill@...com>
>>>>
>>>> Many RTCs provide scratch registers that are maintained so long as the RTC
>>>> has power. Provide a generic method to access these registers.
>>>>
>>>
>>> A gentle ping on this
>>>
>>
>> Yeah, I apologize for the delay (I know you already sent this 6-8 months
>> ago).
>> I'm not satisfied with the interface (and its name). I gave a lot of
>> thought into it and I'm currently reworking part of the subsystem to
>> create a similar feature. I'm planning to have it in 4.13.
>>
> 
> So, the nvmem stuff is now in 4.13. If you can still wait a bit, I'll
> implement it myself and test on am335x.

Sure.

> 
>