[RFC] generic MIPS RTC driver

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Jun Sun wrote:

> >  OK, then you need an RTC chipset-specific driver and not a CPU
> > architecture-specific one.
>
> You *can* write a chip specific driver in addition to this generic one if you
> want.  Presumably the chip-specific one provides more operations than just
> read/write date.

 Then why make this driver MIPS-specific?

> > Otherwise we'll end with a zillion of similar
> > RTC drivers like we already have for LANCE and SCC chips.
>
> Don't quite understand this statement.

 This assumed you've meant an MC146818 RTC that already has a driver for
certain (but possibly not all) configurations.  Since you haven't -- just
forget it.

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