From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 23:15:44 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] don't offer GEN_RTC on ia64 Message-Id: <16499.14880.938413.166692@napali.hpl.hp.com> List-Id: References: <200404061622.49260.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> <20040406223416.GH31152@smtp.west.cox.net> <200404061637.48475.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> In-Reply-To: <200404061637.48475.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Bjorn Helgaas Cc: Tom Rini , Andrew Morton , p_gortmaker@yahoo.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 16:37:48 -0600, Bjorn Helgaas 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