Re: [PATCH][I2C] ST M41T00 I2C RTC chip driver

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 05:04:09PM -0700, Mark A. Greer wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> 
> >Can you resend it with a proper Changelog description in the top of the
> >email and the signed-off-by line?  thanks,
> >
> >greg k-h
> >
> > 
> >
> Certainly.
> --
> 
> This patch adds support for the ST M41T00 I2C RTC chip.
> 
> This rtc chip has no mechanism to freeze it's registers while being 
> read; however, it will delay updating the external values of the 
> registers for 250ms after a register is read.  To ensure that a sane 
> time value is read, the driver verifies that the same registers values 
> were read twice before returning.
> 
> Also, when setting the rtc from an interrupt handler, a tasklet is used 
> to provide the context required by the i2c core code.
> 
> Please apply.

Applied, thanks.

greg k-h