From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Alessandro Zummo <alessandro.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, rtc-linux@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: rtc-ppc
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:18:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1225923526.3882.3.camel@macbook.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081105021901.49dffc3e@i1501.lan.towertech.it>
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.
--
David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation
next parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-05 22:18 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <20081105021901.49dffc3e@i1501.lan.towertech.it>
2008-11-05 22:18 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2008-11-05 22:59 ` rtc-ppc Alessandro Zummo
2008-11-05 23:08 ` rtc-ppc David Gibson
2008-11-05 23:14 ` [rtc-linux] rtc-ppc Alessandro Zummo
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