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 Software Architect Sony Techsoft Centre Europe The Corporate Village · Da Vincilaan 7-D1 · B-1935 Zaventem · Belgium Phone: +32 (0)2 700 8453 Fax: +32 (0)2 700 8622 E-mail: Geert.Uytterhoeven@xxxxxxxxxxx Internet: http://www.sony-europe.com/ A division of Sony Europe (Belgium) N.V. VAT BE 0413.825.160 · RPR Brussels Fortis · BIC GEBABEBB · IBAN BE41293037680010 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
