Re: char: legacy RTC cleanups

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On 26/04/2016 at 23:44:04 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote :
> I've had these patches in my tree for a while, after the first one
> had a few issues that are fixed in this new version. The old-style
> PC RTC driver is now also disabled on m68k (as pointed out by
> Geert), ppc (it was also blacklisted), and m32r (I showed that
> it did not build).
> 
> For the genrtc driver, rearranging the headers makes it simpler
> to use and reduces duplication. In case of alpha and mn10300,
> I've shown that the genrtc and rtc drivers are doing the same
> thing, so we don't need them both. The remaining three
> architectures (m68k, parisc, powerpc) actually all support
> the newer rtc-generic driver, so we could remove genrtc completely
> if we want to.
> 

Personally, I'd go for the kill and remove genrtc instead of cleaning it
up.

-- 
Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html



[Index of Archives]     [Linux Kernel]     [Kernel Newbies]     [x86 Platform Driver]     [Netdev]     [Linux Wireless]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Linux Filesystems]     [Yosemite Discussion]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Samba]     [Device Mapper]

  Powered by Linux