From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757331Ab2DDW1Z (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2012 18:27:25 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:43794 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753556Ab2DDW1Y (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2012 18:27:24 -0400 Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 15:27:22 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: rtc-linux@googlegroups.com Cc: Alexander Stein , Alessandro Zummo , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mikael Starvik , Jesper Nilsson Subject: Re: [rtc-linux] [PATCH 2/2 RFC] rtc-pcf8563: Add RTC_VL_READ/RTC_VL_CLR ioctl feature Message-Id: <20120404152722.2f026ba6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1329236025-31323-2-git-send-email-alexander.stein@systec-electronic.com> References: <1329236025-31323-1-git-send-email-alexander.stein@systec-electronic.com> <1329236025-31323-2-git-send-email-alexander.stein@systec-electronic.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.20.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:13:45 +0100 Alexander Stein wrote: > Changes are based on arch/cris/arch-v10/drivers/pcf8563.c > > drivers/rtc/rtc-pcf8563.c | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- um, why does the kernel have two drivers for the same device? arch/cris/arch-v10/drivers/pcf8563.c reimplements some of drivers/rtc/rtc-lib.c :(