[RFC] generic MIPS RTC driver

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> > In other words, with such a driver, once you implemented rtc_get_time()
> > and rtc_set_time(), which is required by the kernel anyway, you will
> > automatically get a free /dev/rtc/ driver.
> >
> > This is the idea behind the generic MIPS rtc driver.  See the patch below.
>
> Oh no, don't tell me we now have (at least) _three_ of these floating around
> :-)
>
>   - On m68k, we have drivers/char/genrtc.c (not yet merged, check out CVS, see
>     http://linux-m68k-cvs.apia.dhs.org/).
>   - On PPC, we have drivers/macintosh/rtc.c.
>   - On MIPS, we now have your drivers/char/mips_rtc.c.

 Agreed, what's wrong with drivers/char/rtc.c?  It even works for the
DECstation which maps its RTC in an unusual (but nice) way -- it's just a
matter of initializing rtc_ops appropriately.  See arch/mips/dec/rtc-dec.c
for an example.

 Unless you use a non-MC146818 RTC, which you need to write a separate
driver for anyway.

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