From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Luck, Tony" Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 18:46:16 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] rtc/ia64: remove legacy efirtc driver Message-Id: <20191023184616.GA17078@agluck-desk2.amr.corp.intel.com> List-Id: References: <20191023150311.844123-1-arnd@arndb.de> In-Reply-To: <20191023150311.844123-1-arnd@arndb.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Alexandre Belloni , linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org, Alessandro Zummo , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Fenghua Yu , Stephane Eranian , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 05:01:58PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > There are two EFI RTC drivers, the original drivers/char/efirtc.c > driver and the more modern drivers/rtc/rtc-efi.c. > > Both implement the same interface, but the new one does so > in a more portable way. > > Move everything over to that one and remove the old one. The new one is more talkative that the old one. I see this extra line on the console when I boot ia64: rtc-efi rtc-efi: setting system clock to 2019-10-23T18:30:23 UTC (1571855423) That seems somewhat useful & informative (though the repeated "rtc-efi" at the start of the line is redundant). Acked-by: Tony Luck -Tony