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On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:18:46 +0100
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:

> 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.

 That would be real fine :)

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

 That will be a long wait, I don't think anyone volunteered for
 the ntp code. I've been told some platforms are already using the class.


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 Alessandro Zummo,
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