[rtc-linux] Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/5] Generic RTC class driver

[Alessandro Zummo]

On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:34:49 +0100 (CET)
Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven at sonycom.com> wrote:

> >  Hello,
> > 
> >    my opinion on this kind of stuff is that I want to avoid the layering
> >  of implementations under the rtc subsystem. I'd rather prefer that each
> >  rtc device had its own driver. 
> >  
> >   I've made error in the past, by accepting such kind of drivers, and
> >  would like to avoid that it happens again.
> 
> So you want us to kill the ppc_md.[gs]et_rtc_time() [ppc], mach_hwclk() [m68k],
> mach_gettod() [m68knommu] (and probably a few other) abstractions, and move all
> RTC code out of arch/ into seperate drivers under drivers/rtc/ instead?

 not all at once :) 

 I'd start writing a working driver and then see how we should eventually
 adapt the rtc subsystem to cope with your needs.
 
> What about ppc_md.get_boot_time() [ppc]?
> Please note that the functions above may also be used for very early clock
> setting (e.g. time_init()) and in read_persistent_clock().
> How should we handle these?

 read_persistent_clock is something that should be reconsidered
 as well along with all the ntp stuff.

> Even on x86 there seems to be way too much RTC logic in arch/x86/kernel/rtc.c

> (e.g. mach_get_cmos_time()), which is duplicated in drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c
> through the inline function __get_rtc_time() in include/asm-generic/rtc.h
> (clever, hardware-specific stuff in asm-generic ;-)

 yep, I know :( that hardcoded rtc stuff seems to be everywhere!


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 Best regards,

 Alessandro Zummo,
  Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy

  http://www.towertech.it