Re: [PATCH 1/2] rtc/ia64: remove legacy efirtc driver
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- To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] rtc/ia64: remove legacy efirtc driver
- From: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 11:46:16 -0700
- Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-rtc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-ia64@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@xxxxxxxxx>, Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- In-reply-to: <20191023150311.844123-1-arnd@arndb.de>
- References: <20191023150311.844123-1-arnd@arndb.de>
- User-agent: Mutt/1.12.1 (2019-06-15)
On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 05:01:58PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> There are two EFI RTC drivers, the original drivers/char/efirtc.c
> driver and the more modern drivers/rtc/rtc-efi.c.
>
> Both implement the same interface, but the new one does so
> in a more portable way.
>
> Move everything over to that one and remove the old one.
The new one is more talkative that the old one. I see this extra
line on the console when I boot ia64:
rtc-efi rtc-efi: setting system clock to 2019-10-23T18:30:23 UTC (1571855423)
That seems somewhat useful & informative (though the repeated "rtc-efi"
at the start of the line is redundant).
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
-Tony
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