From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Geoff Levand Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] powerpc/ps3: Add rtc-ps3 Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 11:35:58 -0700 Message-ID: <49B5618E.9050501@am.sony.com> References: <1236605183-22718-1-git-send-email-Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> <1236605183-22718-2-git-send-email-Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> <1236605183-22718-3-git-send-email-Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> <1236605183-22718-4-git-send-email-Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> <1236605183-22718-5-git-send-email-Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> <1236605183-22718-6-git-send-email-Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> <1236605183-22718-7-git-send-email-Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> <1236605183-22718-8-git-send-email-Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1236605183-22718-8-git-send-email-Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> Sender: linux-parisc-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Alessandro Zummo , Kyle McMartin , rtc-linux@googlegroups.com, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Paul Mundt , Dann Frazier List-Id: linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org On 03/09/2009 06:26 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Create a real RTC driver for PS3, and unhook the deprecated > ppc_md.[gs]et_rtc_time. > 8 files changed, 132 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) Sorry, I hadn't been following the discussion closely, but could you explain why we are going from a generic framework where we hook in our platform specific part to a totally independent driver that has such an increase in code size. Why couldn't you fix the generic part so that udev could load it automatically? I much prefer to have this code in the platform support code as it was. It is much more effort (a pain) to maintain a separate driver were I have to cater to a subsystem's maintainer, and with this rtc it seems everyone who was using the generic PPC driver will need to do the same. -Geoff