From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761771AbXEJM6x (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 08:58:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761728AbXEJM6n (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 08:58:43 -0400 Received: from mx0.towertech.it ([213.215.222.73]:49114 "HELO mx0.towertech.it" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1761497AbXEJM6m (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 08:58:42 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 400 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 10 May 2007 08:58:41 EDT Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 14:49:52 +0200 From: Alessandro Zummo To: Jean Delvare Cc: Grant Likely , i2c@lm-sensors.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add driver for Dallas DS1682 elapsed time recorder Message-ID: <20070510144952.1d741051@inspiron> In-Reply-To: <20070510134850.64075278@hyperion.delvare> References: <11785707423303-git-send-email-grant.likely@secretlab.ca> <20070510134850.64075278@hyperion.delvare> Organization: Tower Technologies X-Mailer: Sylpheed Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 10 May 2007 13:48:50 +0200 Jean Delvare wrote: > I know this isn't exactly a RTC chip, but this is still related with > timekeeping, so wouldn't it be better placed under drivers/rtc? > Alessandro, what do you think? Hi, I don't know if the rtc subsystem can offer help/framework for such a kind of driver. maybe it could be extended to incorporate it. probably the alarms could be handled in some way. -- Best regards, Alessandro Zummo, Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy http://www.towertech.it