Re: [PATCH -queue v0 5/6] [loongson] rtc: enable legacy RTC driver on fuloong2f

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 07:18:47PM +0800, Wu Zhangjin wrote:

> In reality, fuloong2e, fuloong2f and yeeloong2f work fine with RTC_LIB,
> but relative patches need to append to drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c and also
> need a RTC platform device. If what I remembered is right, Gdium also
> need corresponding patches to make it work with RTC_LIB.
> 
> Herein, I just let the basic support for those machines work, and then,
> the RTC_LIB support will be sent out later.
> 
> and a small question: if legacy RTC driver works well on these machines,
> why should we forbid people to use it? I think it's better to remove the
> "select RTC_LIB" line for MIPS, and then, the people will be free to
> choose what they want, and even for the users whose platform not support
> RTC_LIB.

RTC_LIB is the way to go; the non-RTC_LIB drivers are there only for
backward compatbility.  A grep through the defcconfig files for all
platforms on all architectures finds that by now all have set
CONFIG_RTC_LIB and the remaining users of CONFIG_RTC, CONFIG_JS_RTC,
CONFIG_GEN_RTC, CONFIG_EFI_RTC, CONFIG_DS1302 (which all depend on !RTC_LIB)
are all defconfig files which seem to be slowly bitrotting.

Time to axe !RTC_LIB?  I'm tempted.

  Ralf