Re: [rtc-linux] [PATCH/RFC 0/5] Generic RTC class driver

David Woodhouse
2009-02-24T21:36:01Z

On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 13:34 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > my opinion on this kind of stuff is that I want to avoid the layering
> > of implementations under the rtc subsystem. I'd rather prefer that each
> > rtc device had its own driver.
> >
> > I've made error in the past, by accepting such kind of drivers, and
> > would like to avoid that it happens again.
>
> So you want us to kill the ppc_md.[gs]et_rtc_time() [ppc], mach_hwclk() [m68k],
> mach_gettod() [m68knommu] (and probably a few other) abstractions, and move all
> RTC code out of arch/ into seperate drivers under drivers/rtc/ instead?

That's the ideal... although did we get NTP sync working again yet?

The rtc-ppc driver was intended as a short-term workaround so that we
can enable the generic RTC class (which was required for PA Semi
Electra, iirc), and still have stuff work on other platforms.

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