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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Generic RTC class support for ppc_md.[gs]et_rtc_time
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 07:45 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 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 ?

Yes, definitely. We can migrate them one at a time to the RTC class.

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

Where from?

-- 
dwmw2