Mark A. Greer wrote: > Hi Jean, > > On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 09:52:26PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > > <snip> > >>First, a question. Can't you merge the M41T85 support into the m41t00 >>driver? >> >>Mark, care to comment on that possibility, and/or on the code itself? > > > Sure. > > I wrestled with the ST website for the m41t85 datasheet but lost so I > I can only guess from the patch. The drivers do look very similar. > It looks like the m41t85 is basically a m41t00 with an alarm (watchdog > timer never used AFAICT). http://www.st.com/stonline/products/literature/ds/7531/m41st85w.pdf (I agree ST's (and Maxim's too) site is for strength of mind men :) ). Also added onchip clock, battery and poweroff time (HT == Halt Timestamp). > Also there are some differences in register > offsets and [maybe] some minor differences within the registers but > nothing that serious. Mainly you're right, but, as I wrote before, due to _many_ little differences I get #if/#else.. noise (half file, if be more precisely, was under #if/#else) in unified file. But, if this noise will be acceptable, then yes, I agree to merge this drivers, as minimum, for better administration. <snip> -- Regards Andrey Volkov
