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
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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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