On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, Geoff Levand wrote:
On 03/09/2009 06:26 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
Create a real RTC driver for PS3, and unhook the deprecated
ppc_md.[gs]et_rtc_time.
8 files changed, 132 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
Sorry, I hadn't been following the discussion closely, but
could you explain why we are going from a generic framework
where we hook in our platform specific part to a totally
independent driver that has such an increase in code size.
Alessandro prefers not to have generic RTC drivers on top of some other
abstraction, but wants platform/chip-specific drivers under drivers/rtc/
instead. The goal is to convert all RTC drivers buried in platform code
to separate RTC drivers.
(Alessandro, please correct me if I'm wrong)
Why couldn't you fix the generic part so that udev could
load it automatically?
BTW, I also fixed the generic part, which is now called rtc-generic and
autoloaded (patch 4).
I much prefer to have this code in the platform support
code as it was. It is much more effort (a pain) to maintain
a separate driver were I have to cater to a subsystem's
maintainer, and with this rtc it seems everyone who was
using the generic PPC driver will need to do the same.
They can keep on using rtc-generic for now (patch 6).
If you do not want rtc-ps3, you can nak it, and keep on using rtc-generic :-)
But please consider before doing that...
With kind regards,
Geert Uytterhoeven
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