From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
p_gortmaker@yahoo.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] don't offer GEN_RTC on ia64
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 23:15:44 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16499.14880.938413.166692@napali.hpl.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200404061637.48475.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
>>>>> On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 16:37:48 -0600, Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> said:
Bjorn> I'd actually like to do that, but that's a longer-term
Bjorn> project. And I don't know the history behind efi_rtc, so
Bjorn> maybe there's a good reason for it being separate.
AFAIR, when efirtc was being written, the normal RTC driver was
specific to the PC clock chips (mc14whatever) and it wasn't clear
whether it should even try to be generic. I don't think anybody is
particularly attached to the bits.
--david
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-06 23:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-06 22:22 [PATCH] don't offer GEN_RTC on ia64 Bjorn Helgaas
2004-04-06 22:34 ` Tom Rini
2004-04-06 22:37 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2004-04-06 22:44 ` Tom Rini
2004-04-06 23:15 ` David Mosberger [this message]
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