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

[Alessandro Zummo]

On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 11:41:23 +0100 (CET)
Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven at sonycom.com> wrote:

> rtc-generic is already in the kernel, it's just called rtc-parisc ;-)

 Really? I never saw it :)

> >  But I'd strongly suggest to plan and execute a conversion process.
> 
> So would you accept a patch series that:
>   1. Adds the missing module aliases to rtc-parisc (which is a bugfix),
>   2. Moves the platform device creation out of rtc-ppc and into arch-specific
>      code (which is also a bugfix),
>   3. Consolidates rtc-parisc and rtc-ppc into rtc-generic (which is a cleanup),
>   4. Makes rtc-generic dependent on PARISC, PPC, and M68K (the existing
>      [sg]et_rtc_time() users):
>        a. without introducing ARCH_HAS_GENERIC_RTC,
>        b. with a big fat warning in the Kconfig comment not relaxing the
>           dependencies, as it's supposed to go away.
>   4. Converts the PS3 RTC support into a separate driver, called rtc-ps3
>      (as a bonus ;-)
> 
> ? If yes, I'll cook it up.
> 
> Other RTC platform support can be converted into separate drivers later.

 Seems reasonable. But please add a list of users of rtc-generic and information
 about their respective rtc hardware along with some general planning about
 which future driver would cover which users.

 And let's hope this is a beginning :)

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 Best regards,

 Alessandro Zummo,
  Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy

  http://www.towertech.it