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From: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
To: Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	rtc-linux@googlegroups.com, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/9 v3] RFC: timekeeping: rtc: Introduce new kernel parameter hctosys
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:24:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51BB6DD9.6010200@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1371228732-5749-6-git-send-email-holler@ahsoftware.de>

On 06/14/2013 09:52 AM, Alexander Holler wrote:
> hctosys= specifies the driver (RTC) name which sets the system clock at
> boot, if and only if userspace hasn't set the time before the driver will
> be loaded.
>
> If hctosys will not be specified, the first available hardware clock
> with a valid time will be used (again, if and only if ...).
>
> If you don't want that the system clock will be set by any hardware clock,
> just specify a non-existent RTC driver name, e.g. with hctosys=none.

So what was the rational for this to be a boot time argument instead of 
using the existing compile time CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS_DEVICE?

If we need a boot argument, that's still doable, but it probably should 
fall back to CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS_DEVICE if not specified.

thanks
-john


  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-14 19:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-19 15:14 [PATCH 0/3] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time Alexander Holler
2013-04-19 15:14 ` [PATCH 1/3 RESEND] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time: allow full years (16bit) in HID reports Alexander Holler
2013-04-19 15:14 ` [PATCH 2/3] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time: allow 16 and 32 bit values for all attributes Alexander Holler
2013-04-19 15:14 ` [PATCH 3/3] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time; add option hctosys to set time at boot Alexander Holler
2013-04-22 23:38   ` Andrew Morton
2013-04-23  8:51     ` Alexander Holler
2013-04-23 10:08       ` Alexander Holler
2013-04-23 10:13         ` Alexander Holler
2013-04-23 10:17           ` Alexander Holler
2013-04-23 15:47             ` Alexander Holler
2013-04-24 21:14               ` Andrew Morton
2013-04-25  6:55                 ` Alexander Holler
2013-05-05 11:21             ` [PATCH 0/4] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time: some changes Alexander Holler
2013-05-05 11:21               ` [PATCH 1/4] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time: allow full years (16bit) in HID reports Alexander Holler
2013-05-05 11:21               ` [PATCH 2/4] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time: allow 16 and 32 bit values for all attributes Alexander Holler
2013-05-05 11:21               ` [PATCH 3/4] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time: add option hctosys to set time at boot Alexander Holler
2013-05-21 21:42                 ` Andrew Morton
2013-05-21 22:02                 ` John Stultz
2013-05-21 23:15                   ` Alexander Holler
2013-05-28 19:37                     ` John Stultz
2013-05-29  4:42                       ` Alexander Holler
2013-06-04 13:41                         ` Alexander Holler
2013-06-05 17:15                           ` [PATCH 0/3] RFC: timekeeping: rtc: change hctosys mechanism Alexander Holler
2013-06-05 17:15                             ` [PATCH 1/3] RFC: timekeeping: introduce flag systime_was_set Alexander Holler
2013-06-05 17:15                             ` [PATCH 2/3] RFC: timekeeping: rtc: Introduce new kernel parameter hctosys Alexander Holler
2013-06-05 17:15                             ` [PATCH 3/3] RFC: timekeeping: rtc: remove CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS and RTC_HCTOSYS_DEVICE Alexander Holler
2013-06-06 10:51                             ` [PATCH 0/3 v2] RFC: timekeeping: rtc: change hctosys mechanism Alexander Holler
2013-06-06 10:51                               ` [PATCH 1/3 RESEND] RFC: timekeeping: introduce flag systime_was_set Alexander Holler
2013-06-06 10:51                               ` [PATCH 2/3 v2] RFC: timekeeping: rtc: Introduce new kernel parameter hctosys Alexander Holler
2013-06-13 19:39                                 ` Alexander Holler
2013-06-14 16:52                                   ` [PATCH 0/9 v3] RFC: timekeeping: rtc: change hctosys mechanism Alexander Holler
2013-06-14 16:52                                     ` [PATCH 1/9 RESEND] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time: allow full years (16bit) in HID reports Alexander Holler
2013-06-14 16:52                                     ` [PATCH 2/9 RESEND] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time: allow 16 and 32 bit values for all attributes Alexander Holler
2013-06-14 16:52                                     ` [PATCH 3/9] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time: delay registering as rtc into a work Alexander Holler
2013-06-20 10:39                                       ` [PATCH 3/9 v2] " Alexander Holler
2013-06-26 19:55                                         ` Andrew Morton
2013-06-26 21:34                                           ` [rtc-linux] " Alexander Holler
2013-06-26 22:07                                             ` Greg KH
2013-06-26 23:51                                               ` Alexander Holler
2013-07-06  8:55                                                 ` Alexander Holler
2013-07-06 18:21                                                   ` Jiri Kosina
2013-07-07  7:35                                                     ` Alexander Holler
2013-07-08  9:12                                                       ` [PATCH 0/2] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time: enable HID input processing early Alexander Holler
2013-07-08  9:12                                                         ` [PATCH 1/2] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time: improve error handling when rtc register fails Alexander Holler
2013-07-08  9:12                                                         ` [PATCH 2/2] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time: enable HID input processing early Alexander Holler
2013-06-28  1:29                                             ` [rtc-linux] Re: [PATCH 3/9 v2] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time: delay registering as rtc into a work Alexander Holler
2013-06-14 16:52                                     ` [PATCH 4/9 RESEND] RFC: timekeeping: introduce flag systime_was_set Alexander Holler
2013-06-14 17:41                                       ` John Stultz
2013-06-14 18:05                                         ` [rtc-linux] " Alexander Holler
2013-06-14 18:28                                           ` John Stultz
2013-06-15  6:01                                             ` Alexander Holler
2013-06-17 18:10                                               ` John Stultz
2013-06-20 10:15                                                 ` Alexander Holler
2013-06-20 17:27                                                   ` John Stultz
2013-06-20 18:45                                                     ` Alexander Holler
2013-06-20 19:28                                                       ` John Stultz
2013-06-20 23:10                                                         ` Alexander Holler
2013-06-14 16:52                                     ` [PATCH 5/9 v3] RFC: timekeeping: rtc: Introduce new kernel parameter hctosys Alexander Holler
2013-06-14 19:24                                       ` John Stultz [this message]
2013-06-14 16:52                                     ` [PATCH 6/9 v3] RFC: timekeeping: rtc: remove CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS and RTC_HCTOSYS_DEVICE Alexander Holler
2013-06-14 19:11                                       ` John Stultz
2013-06-22  8:00                                         ` Alexander Holler
2013-06-14 16:52                                     ` [PATCH 7/9] RFC: rtc: implement rtc_read_timeval() Alexander Holler
2013-06-14 17:23                                       ` John Stultz
2013-06-14 17:43                                         ` Alexander Holler
2013-06-14 19:18                                           ` John Stultz
2013-06-14 17:28                                       ` John Stultz
2013-06-14 16:52                                     ` [PATCH 8/9] RFC: rtc: hctosys: support rtc_read_timeval() for high precision clocks Alexander Holler
2013-06-14 19:20                                       ` John Stultz
2013-06-14 16:52                                     ` [PATCH 9/9] RFC: rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time: add support for rtc_read_timeval() Alexander Holler
2013-06-14 17:27                                     ` [PATCH 0/9 v3] RFC: timekeeping: rtc: change hctosys mechanism John Stultz
2013-06-06 10:51                               ` [PATCH 3/3 v2] RFC: timekeeping: rtc: remove CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS and RTC_HCTOSYS_DEVICE Alexander Holler
2013-06-04  9:38                 ` [PATCH] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time: fix possible bug on driver_remove Alexander Holler
2013-06-08  8:56                   ` Alexander Holler
2013-05-05 11:21               ` [PATCH 4/4] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time: add support for milliseconds Alexander Holler
2013-04-20 23:46 ` [PATCH 0/3] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time Jiri Kosina
2013-04-21  6:38   ` Alexander Holler

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