Geoff Levand wrote: > Alessandro Zummo wrote: >> On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:11:23 -0600 >> Kumar Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Is the functionality provided by drivers/char/gen_rtc.c completely >>> handled by the rtc subsystem in drivers/rtc? >>> >>> I ask for two reasons: >>> 1. should we make it mutually exclusive in Kconfig >>> 2. I've enabled both and get (we'll my defconfig did): >> >> They shouldn't be enabled at once. I think a patch >> for Kconfig has been recently submitted to give a warning >> in such a case. >> >> rtc-cmos should be able to handle the vast majority of x86 >> rtcs out there. > > gen_rtc was hooked up to the powerpc platform > ppc_md.set_rtc_time and ppc_md.get_rtc_time via the arch > specific get_rtc_time() and set_rtc_time() routines. > >>From what I can tell, those generic rtc routines the powerpc > arch provides are not properly hooked into the new rtc subsystem. > This causes problems for multi-platform builds where some platforms > must use gen_rtc, and some must the new rtc subsytem.
Just to follow up, I found that David Woodhouse has submitted a patch which does this: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/linuxppc/patch?id=18139 -Geoff _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
