Re: char: legacy RTC cleanups

Arnd Bergmann
2016-04-27T10:07:29Z

On Wednesday 27 April 2016 11:44:10 Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> On 26/04/2016 at 23:44:04 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote :
> > I've had these patches in my tree for a while, after the first one
> > had a few issues that are fixed in this new version. The old-style
> > PC RTC driver is now also disabled on m68k (as pointed out by
> > Geert), ppc (it was also blacklisted), and m32r (I showed that
> > it did not build).
> >
> > For the genrtc driver, rearranging the headers makes it simpler
> > to use and reduces duplication. In case of alpha and mn10300,
> > I've shown that the genrtc and rtc drivers are doing the same
> > thing, so we don't need them both. The remaining three
> > architectures (m68k, parisc, powerpc) actually all support
> > the newer rtc-generic driver, so we could remove genrtc completely
> > if we want to.
> >
>
> Personally, I'd go for the kill and remove genrtc instead of cleaning it up.

Right, so we could skip patches 5 and 6, and instead remove the two
headers as we remove the driver. Let's see what the architecture
maintainers think about it, at least powerpc actually enables gen_rtc
in its defconfig, so it might take a while to move it over.

Arnd