This patch adds support for the ST M41T00 RTC chip. You will likely notice that it implements a PPC-specific interface (/dev/rtc->drivers/char/genrtc.h->include/asm-ppc/rtc.h->this file). This was necessary to support a subset of ppc platforms that need to hook up the rtc support at runtime. If I implemented /dev/rtc directly or interfaced to genrtc.c directly, those platforms couldn't use this driver. Eventually, I hope to work on more uniform rtc support across all the processor architectures. Also, on ppc at least, the hw clock can be set from a timer interrupt if STA_UNSYNC is not set (e.g., ntpd is running). To handle this, a tasklet is used to set the clock if in_interrupt() is true. I'd appreciate an comments or to have it pushed into the kernel.org tree if its acceptable. Thanks, Mark Signed-off-by: Mark A. Greer <mgreer at mvista.com> -- -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: m41t00.patch Url: http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/attachments/20050131/229192ae/attachment.pl
