[PATCH] generic RTC support for PPC

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Feb 7 01:40:33 EST 2007


On Feb 6, 2007, at 5:08 AM, Paul Mackerras wrote:

> Olof Johansson writes:
>
>> Make the PPC RTC functions use the generic RTC infrastructure if they
>> are not already defined (and an RTC is registered in the system).
>>
>> This should make it possible to remove the hideous direct access used
>> in some of the 83xx platforms.
>
> What was the consensus in the end about this?  Should it go in for
> 2.6.21?

Are the "scheduling while atomic" issues that existed before actually  
been fixed?

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=116378523012349&w=2

- k



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