[PATCH] generic RTC support for PPC

[Kumar Gala]

On Jan 29, 2007, at 11:17 PM, Tom Rini wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 01:37:54AM -0600, Olof Johansson wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Now, I know I'm a bit late, and I've been quiet of late, but, um,  
> why is
> there anything other than the RTC class stuff being used?  I know
> drivers/char/genrtc.c isn't gone yet, but really, it should be in the
> process of being phased out.  IMHO, it should depend on !POWERPC (or
> whatever the magic is to allow arch/ppc && !arch/powerpc).

I think the problem was calling the RTC class code from the place's  
we use rtc in ppc had locking issues or something like that.

- k