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Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

>This makes it more complex to make drivers/char/genrtc.c work on MIPS, since 
>usually the date and time have to be converted twice: once from struct rtc_time
>to seconds in <asm/rtc.h>, and once from seconds to struct rtc_time in each RTC
>driver.
>
>Is it OK to make rtc_[gs]et_time() always use struct rtc_time?
>
>  
>
I quite like it the way it is ;-).

/Brian

LASAT port maintainer.