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