From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755355AbYIHXci (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2008 19:32:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754422AbYIHXc3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2008 19:32:29 -0400 Received: from smtp119.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com ([69.147.64.92]:43181 "HELO smtp119.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1754107AbYIHXc3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2008 19:32:29 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=pacbell.net; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:Cc:References:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Disposition:Message-Id; b=QNSgGWiQS/cEvhaG+DFS8bKmnSTOgluWyGUILWWjhAV5Ekmq4+VAhb/rNBBXvjzf27U8UZAhnXvY68+Mr8S45nhDOo8dBZrSq0OUpMs0TaUUUXzUU4Eq+cJFqu9AW3c4X4ZmrRoqq9dp34Hiiz7AR+e1OgoFFNDBl8g0FdTdznk= ; X-YMail-OSG: uJZq_C0VM1nKEwiscaOiuowztwKjXXqZJD_IcaigoIjD.yvlf1DJEhR5qWSFBdtT6CVbhqLDbS_nzFlEXyj8ySXfMTICiAOosa_joqiUsx3L5Jw9BKVzeCE1CLk964QbfXs- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 From: David Brownell To: James Bottomley Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix RTC_CLASS regression with PARISC Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 16:32:25 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: David Miller , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org References: <200809081429.57805.david-b@pacbell.net> <20080908.160441.124972717.davem@davemloft.net> <1220916186.8074.84.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1220916186.8074.84.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200809081632.26166.david-b@pacbell.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 08 September 2008, James Bottomley wrote: > > > All the powerpc folks are doing is providing a dummy shim into the > > RTC layer using their machine description vector, and not really using > > the RTC layer drivers at all. > > But realistically that's all we need.  Our RTC is controlled by two > calls into firmware: a get and a set; nothing else.  We don't have the > docs to get at the clock without the firmware calls. True for PARISC ... but not for PowerPC. Lots of PowerPC system boards use off-the-shelf RTCs with more capabilities than the machine description vector acknowledges. - Dave