From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Fri, 06 Sep 2002 20:29:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([12.44.186.158]:49394 "EHLO orion.mvista.com") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 20:29:56 +0200 Received: (from jsun@localhost) by orion.mvista.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g86IIFO01331; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 11:18:15 -0700 Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 11:18:15 -0700 From: Jun Sun To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: jsun@mvista.com Subject: [jsun@mvista.com: Re: /dev/rtc lookalike for NEW_TIME_C?] Message-ID: <20020906111815.B1282@mvista.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 136 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: jsun@mvista.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Try again .... ----- Forwarded message from Jun Sun ----- On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 08:26:14PM -0700, Matthew Dharm wrote: > Has anyone written a driver module provide something like /dev/rtc for > those platforms that use the CONFIG_NEW_TIME_C? > Yes. I submitted this patch November last year. There was some discussions, but no real opposition. Ralf, can you apply this patch? Tom Rini is supposedly to come up with a unified solution in 2.5+. But until then this is such a useful thing for MIPS folks. http://linux.junsun.net/patches/oss.sgi.com/submitted. Jun ----- End forwarded message -----