On Wednesday 27 April 2016 11:44:10 Alexandre Belloni wrote: > 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. Right, so we could skip patches 5 and 6, and instead remove the two headers as we remove the driver. Let's see what the architecture maintainers think about it, at least powerpc actually enables gen_rtc in its defconfig, so it might take a while to move it over. Arnd -- 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
