Re: [PATCH] POWERPC: Added RTC support for mpc8313RDB and utilize "clock-frequency"

[Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>]

Vitaly Bordug wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:36:45 -0500
> Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> wrote:
>>We should be removing this from board files that have it, not adding it
>>to ones that don't.
> 
> Yet many boards still have this stuff (like pretty recent 86xx) - should
> we at least add some comments or clean that up?

See above. :-)

AFAICT, it's just copied from board to board without thought.  It should 
be removed.

>>The ppc_md RTC functions should really just go away, though -- setting
>>the clock on bootup can be done by generic code, and periodically
>>updating the RTC when using NTP can be done from userspace.
> 
> If those ppc_md hookups would be declared deprecated, there's no much sense in the upper,
> apparently. But I am not sure they will be... I'm inclined to let this patch floating since
> interacting with rtc class from within BSP code just does not worth it.

I'm not sure they will either; I just wish they would be. :-)

In the meantime, some sort of workqueue-based hookup to the RTC class 
API should be used.  I believe there have been patches along those lines 
posted in the past.

-Scott