Re: [PATCH] rtc: add x86 support for rtc-efi

["H. Peter Anvin" <h.peter.anvin@intel.com>]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Brian Maly <bmaly@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>>> Hm, it would be nice to first unify the relevant bits of 
>>> arch/x86/kernel/time_{32|64}.c into arch/x86/kernel/time.c, and 
>>> then we can apply such patches without duplicative effects.
>> Ingo,
>>
>> Are you OK with consolidating this into arch/x86/kernel/rtc.c as 
>> Huang Ying had suggested? This seems like the most logical place 
>> for the rtc-efi init to happen, but your suggestion to consolidate 
>> this into arch/x86/kernel.time.c may have advantages that I am not 
>> aware of.  Anyway, I would appreciate any insight/opinions on this 
>> if you have any.  Thanks.
> 
> Yes, that indeed sounds like an even better place for it.
> 

Furthermore, the EFI RTC code probably should be in its own file.

In fact, arch/x86/kernel really could use more subdirectories; at least 
the EFI and UV-specific code should be be moved out.

	-hpa