Hi Arnd, On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wednesday 27 April 2016 09:54:41 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 11:44 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > 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. >> >> CONFIG_GEN_RTC is not enabled in any of the m68k defconfigs, so I think genrtc >> has been unused for a while. >> All defconfigs either use CONFIG_RTC_DRV_GENERIC, or enable a more specific >> RTC driver. > > Ok, good to know. I'm guessing the same is true for parisc, but there are > also very few users. > > Regarding the Q40 specific ioctls, what do you think this means, is it > > a) nobody uses Q40 with modern kernels, > b) nobody calls RTC_PLL_GET/RTC_PLL_SET on q40, or > c) Q40 users have their own configurations and enable GEN_RTC? To be honest, I have no idea. There have never been many Q40 users. (old) http://www.linux-m68k.org/Registry/Statistics.html shows only 8. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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