rtc-ppc

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Thu Nov 6 09:18:46 EST 2008


On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 02:19 +0100, Alessandro Zummo wrote:
>   I was checking a few drivers for compliance and noticed that
>  the rtc-ppc driver registers a platform device instead of
>  a platform driver.
> 
>   Wouldn't be possible to have the ppc arch doing the device
>  thing and cleanup the driver?

It would be possible, yes -- but it would be better to have the various
PPC platforms just register RTC-class devices _directly_, and ditch the
RTC bits from ppc_md altogether.

I think we're waiting until the RTC class works with NTP before we can
contemplate that, though.

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David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse at intel.com                              Intel Corporation




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