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From: Alessandro Zummo <alessandro.zummo@towertech.it>
To: rtc-linux@googlegroups.com,
	Linux-MIPS <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>,
	Kevin Hickey <khickey@rmicorp.com>,
	Manuel Lauss <mano@roarinelk.homelinux.net>
Subject: Re: [rtc-linux] Re: [RFC PATCH] Au1xxx on-chip counter-as-RTC driver
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:59:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081028115927.6996d07f@i1501.lan.towertech.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081028105220.GA1235@roarinelk.homelinux.net>

On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:52:20 +0100
Manuel Lauss <mano@roarinelk.homelinux.net> wrote:

> >  I'd need some feedback from linux-mips, otherwise
> >  I can only Sign-off for the entries in drivers/rtc .  
> 
> I stripped the alchemy board parts away from the patch; they can go in
> through the mips tree at a later time.

 ok.

> >  Btw why are you using a lock? the rtc class core
> >  already provides his own lock for the ops calls.  
> 
> Didn't know that; I mostly looked at rtc-sh.c for guidance which also
> uses its own locks.

 I think it's due to the interrupt handling in rtc-sh.

-- 

 Best regards,

 Alessandro Zummo,
  Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy

  http://www.towertech.it

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-28 10:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-09 14:14 [RFC PATCH] Au1xxx on-chip counter-as-RTC driver Manuel Lauss
2008-10-21 18:38 ` [rtc-linux] " Alessandro Zummo
2008-10-22  7:31   ` Manuel Lauss
2008-10-28 10:17     ` [rtc-linux] " Alessandro Zummo
2008-10-28 10:52       ` Manuel Lauss
2008-10-28 10:59         ` Alessandro Zummo [this message]
2008-11-05  0:53         ` Alessandro Zummo
2008-11-05 20:44           ` Manuel Lauss

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