On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > In other words, with such a driver, once you implemented rtc_get_time() > > and rtc_set_time(), which is required by the kernel anyway, you will > > automatically get a free /dev/rtc/ driver. > > > > This is the idea behind the generic MIPS rtc driver. See the patch below. > > Oh no, don't tell me we now have (at least) _three_ of these floating around > :-) > > - On m68k, we have drivers/char/genrtc.c (not yet merged, check out CVS, see > http://linux-m68k-cvs.apia.dhs.org/). > - On PPC, we have drivers/macintosh/rtc.c. > - On MIPS, we now have your drivers/char/mips_rtc.c. Agreed, what's wrong with drivers/char/rtc.c? It even works for the DECstation which maps its RTC in an unusual (but nice) way -- it's just a matter of initializing rtc_ops appropriately. See arch/mips/dec/rtc-dec.c for an example. Unless you use a non-MC146818 RTC, which you need to write a separate driver for anyway. -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
