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

2009-02-25 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 23:11 +0100, Alessandro Zummo wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:35:27 +0900 > > David Woodhouse wrote: > > > > > > So you want us to kill the ppc_md.[gs]et_rtc_time() [ppc], mach_hwclk() > > > > [m68k], > > > > mach_gettod() [m6

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

2009-02-25 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, David Woodhouse wrote: > 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 driv

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

2009-02-24 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 23:11 +0100, Alessandro Zummo wrote: > On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:35:27 +0900 > David Woodhouse wrote: > > > > 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 > >

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

2009-02-24 Thread Alessandro Zummo
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:35:27 +0900 David Woodhouse wrote: > > 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

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

2009-02-24 Thread David Woodhouse
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 acc

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

2009-02-23 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Alessandro Zummo wrote: > On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:46:44 +0100 > Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > Fortunately there already exists a generic RTC class driver: "rtc-parisc". > > Despite it's name, it's platform-independent, as it's build on top of the > > RTC > > abstraction used b

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

2009-02-20 Thread Alessandro Zummo
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:46:44 +0100 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Fortunately there already exists a generic RTC class driver: "rtc-parisc". > Despite it's name, it's platform-independent, as it's build on top of the RTC > abstraction used by "genrtc". > > This patch series > - adds a missing mod