From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mout.kundenserver.de (mout.kundenserver.de [217.72.192.73]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3qvwf50X4vzDq5s for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2016 20:08:44 +1000 (AEST) From: Arnd Bergmann To: Alexandre Belloni Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , tony.luck@intel.com, geert@linux-m68k.org, jejb@parisc-linux.org, deller@gmx.de, benh@kernel.crashing.org, mpe@ellerman.id.au, dalias@libc.org, dhowells@redhat.com, yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com, rth@twiddle.net, ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, a.zummo@towertech.it, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, rtc-linux@googlegroups.com, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: char: legacy RTC cleanups Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 12:07:29 +0200 Message-ID: <4937900.aITlOE9vLo@wuerfel> In-Reply-To: <20160427094410.GJ3264@piout.net> References: <1461707052-1337718-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> <20160427094410.GJ3264@piout.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wednesday 27 April 2016 11:44:10 Alexandre Belloni wrote: > On 26/04/2016 at 23:44:04 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote : > > I've had these patches in my tree for a while, after the first one > > had a few issues that are fixed in this new version. The old-style > > PC RTC driver is now also disabled on m68k (as pointed out by > > Geert), ppc (it was also blacklisted), and m32r (I showed that > > it did not build). > > > > For the genrtc driver, rearranging the headers makes it simpler > > to use and reduces duplication. In case of alpha and mn10300, > > I've shown that the genrtc and rtc drivers are doing the same > > thing, so we don't need them both. The remaining three > > architectures (m68k, parisc, powerpc) actually all support > > the newer rtc-generic driver, so we could remove genrtc completely > > if we want to. > > > > Personally, I'd go for the kill and remove genrtc instead of cleaning it up. Right, so we could skip patches 5 and 6, and instead remove the two headers as we remove the driver. Let's see what the architecture maintainers think about it, at least powerpc actually enables gen_rtc in its defconfig, so it might take a while to move it over. Arnd