[1/2] RTC: Add core rtc support for Gemini Soc devices

[alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com (Alexandre Belloni)]

On 06/05/2015 at 11:39:58 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote :
> On Saturday 02 May 2015 01:42:14 Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On 14/12/2010 at 16:08:26 +0100, Hans Ulli Kroll wrote :
> > > driver for the rtc device
> > > on Cortina Systems CS3516 or StormlinkSemi SL3516 aka Gemini SoC
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Hans Ulli Kroll <ulli.kroll@googlemail.com>
> > 
> > This driver has never been merged and the platform doesn't seem to be
> > active anymore. Is there still any interest in getting this driver
> > mainlined?
> > 
> > Only tree wide cleanups happened in mach-gemini since end of 2010, the
> > listed git repository (git://git.berlios.de/gemini-board) was on berliOS
> > (closed since 2011) and the sourceforge mirror seems empty. Is there
> > still interest in keeping that platform in the mainline?
> 
> As far as I know, the platform is still used by a number of people,
> and is supported by OpenWRT. The reason we haven't seen updates is that
> Ulli has been mostly absent from upstream development, and we haven't
> had any other person step up as maintainer.
> 
> I have a patch to convert the platform to ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM, and
> the code doesn't really get in the way otherwise.
> 
> As far as I'm concerned, we should just merge all the patches from
> http://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt.git;a=tree;f=target/linux/gemini/patches-3.18
> 
> We should also try to find a maintainer that can respond to patches
> in a timely manner. If Ulli has time for that again, that would be great,
> otherwise I think we should find someone from OpenWRT to take over.
> 

Thanks to point that, I'll merge that one which seems clean enough:
http://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt.git;a=blob;f=target/linux/gemini/files/drivers/rtc/rtc-gemini.c;h=587d8122b2fbb1230437eadcce4789a53aa60ee5;hb=4c637410a2a1ab45988e8ca6202554a502102039


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