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

[David Woodhouse]

On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 23:11 +0100, Alessandro Zummo wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:35:27 +0900
> David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:
> 
> > > 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?
> > 
> > That's the ideal... although did we get NTP sync working again yet?
> 
>  not yet. we're close but I've been very busy :(

I know the feeling.

Once that's working, we can convert individual PPC platforms over,
removing the routines from the ppc_md and creating a generic RTC driver
instead. PA Electra is already like that -- because it wasn't a
regression there to have broken NTP sync. But the others need to wait.

Eventually, we ought to be able to drop the RTC functions from the
ppc_md -- and presumably the equivalent for other architectures too.

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