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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Generic RTC class support for ppc_md.[gs]et_rtc_time
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 17:04 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> It would be good to migrate the platform code to register RTC devices
> directly, but for now this will make them functional enough for most
> purposes...

Wouldn't it be best to do the other way around at some stage ?

We need to solve the problem of ppc_md. stuff being called by the core
in atomic contexts first though.

Ben.