Re: 2.6 must-fix list, v2

Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-05-14T07:58:15Z

On Wed, 14 May 2003, Russell King wrote:
> - I think we need a generic RTC driver (which is backed by real RTCs).
> Integrator-based stuff has a 32-bit 1Hz counter RTC with alarm, as
> has the SA11xx, and probably PXA. There's another implementation
> for the RiscPC and ARM26 stuff. I'd rather not see 4 implementations
> of the RTC userspace API, but one common implementation so that stuff
> gets done in a consistent way.
>
> We postponed this at the beginning of 2.4 until 2.5 happened. We're
> now at 2.5, and I'm about to add at least one more (the Integrator
> implementation.) This isn't sane imo.

What about adding the periodic counter and alarm support to
drivers/char/genrtc.c? Genrtc is used on m68k, PA-RISC, PPC, MIPS (private
tree), and even on ia32.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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