[PATCH] generic RTC support for PPC
Olof Johansson
olof at lixom.net
Wed Feb 7 02:16:40 EST 2007
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 10:08:35PM +1100, 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?
Sounds like Tom Rini was strongly against it since the rtc class api
should be the way to do it now. I don't care much either way, and
it's not urgent for 2.6.21. Leave it out for now, I had written it off
already myself.
-Olof
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