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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, rtc-linux@googlegroups.com, dannf@hp.com,
	tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: enable rtc-efi
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 08:09:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110708070952.GA3004@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E16B5DB0200007800072A2D@nat28.tlf.novell.com>

On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 07:46:35AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:

>    Having thought some more about this, I don't think this should be
>    handled in the RTC driver. Instead, arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c ought
>    to be handling this - also for all other eventual callers of the time
>    related calls. In other words, the bug has been existing before my
>    patch (and it just exposes it by introducing callers of the incompletely
>    implemented backing functions).

I'm in the process of removing this code from arch/x86, since it's 
functionally identical to the IA64 version. That's probably going to 
complicate this approach a little, but you're right that it makes sense 
for the locking to be at the backend rather than in rtc-efi.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

       reply	other threads:[~2011-07-08  7:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4E16B5DB0200007800072A2D@nat28.tlf.novell.com>
2011-07-08  7:09 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2011-07-05  7:38 [PATCH] x86: enable rtc-efi Jan Beulich
2011-07-05 18:02 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-07-05 18:29 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-07-06  7:09   ` Jan Beulich
2011-07-06 11:42     ` Matthew Garrett

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