From: Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Subject: Re: [rtc-linux] [PATCH 1/2] Allow to override the hctosys RTC using a kernel parameter
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 14:20:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53BA90A5.1000108@ahsoftware.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5132579.sMfE4ssjXf@rfietze>
Am 07.07.2014 13:30, schrieb Roman Fietze:
> Hello RTC maintainers and list members,
>
> I would like to hear your criticism about the following two small
> patches.
>
> These patches allow to overwrite the hctosys RTC specified in the
> kernel config using CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS_DEVICE.
>
> The background ist, that we have two almost identical x86 boards from
> MEN in Nuernberg. The first one buffers the CMOS RTC, the other one
> buffers an additional Epson RX8581 I2C RTC. We would like to use the
> same kernel, but the only parameter we could not overwrite when
> starting the kernel or system was the RTC used to initialize the
> system clock.
You might have a look at a year old thread with working patches which
does a bit more too:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/13/6
Regards,
Alexander Holler
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-07 12:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-07 11:30 [PATCH 1/2] Allow to override the hctosys RTC using a kernel parameter Roman Fietze
2014-07-07 11:50 ` [PATCH 2/2] " Roman Fietze
2014-07-07 13:01 ` Alexander Holler
2014-07-15 23:15 ` [rtc-linux] " Andrew Morton
2014-07-07 12:20 ` Alexander Holler [this message]
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