Re: [PATCH v3 28/38] rtc: add HAS_IOPORT dependencies

Geert Uytterhoeven
2023-05-09T08:51:33Z

Hi Arnd,

On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 10:23 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> On Tue, May 9, 2023, at 08:38, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Mon, May 8, 2023 at 10:01 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> >> On Mon, May 8, 2023, at 17:36, Niklas Schnelle wrote:
> >>
> >> I think the m68k/atari and mips/dec variants don't necessarily
> >> qualify as PIO, those are really just pointer dereferences, and
> >> they don't use the actual inb/outb functions.
> >>
> >> On atari, it looks like HAS_IOPORT may be set if ATARI_ROM_ISA
> >> is, but on dec it's never enabled.
> >
> > Atari does not use RTC_DRV_CMOS, but still relies on generic RTC
> > instead.
>
> Ah right, I now remember working on that code, so we're good on
> m68k then. I think it should work for everyone using
>
> depends on HAS_IOPORT || ARCH_DECSTATION
>
> in that case, as that is the only exception.
>
> > Last time (in 2013?) I tried converting to RTC_DRV_CMOS by registering
> > an "rtc_cmos" platform device, I couldn't get it to work.
>
> If you ever want to revisit this, I suspect the harder part here
> is to detach arch/m68k/ from the RTC_DRV_GENERIC code first, pushing
> the device registration into the individual machine specific time.c
> code. It's probably not even worth trying to share the rtc-cmos
> driver, but it might be useful to share the library code like
> RTC_DRV_ALPHA does.

Arch/m68k is not that entangled with RTC_DRV_GENERIC, as amiga_defconfig
does not enable it, but enables CONFIG_RTC_DRV_MSM6242 and
CONFIG_RTC_DRV_RP5C01 instead.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds