In case anyone is interesed, I just tried this. The patch still applies, tho with some fuzz. It appears to work as advertised, which is to say that it does everything I'm interested in. I _definately_ think this should go in on the 2.4 branch, as well as the 2.5 branch. Matt -- Matthew D. Dharm Senior Software Designer Momentum Computer Inc. 1815 Aston Ave. Suite 107 (760) 431-8663 X-115 Carlsbad, CA 92008-7310 Momentum Works For You www.momenco.com > -----Original Message----- > From: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org > [mailto:linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org]On Behalf Of Jun Sun > Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 11:18 AM > To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org > Cc: jsun@mvista.com > Subject: [jsun@mvista.com: Re: /dev/rtc lookalike for NEW_TIME_C?] > > > > Try again .... > > ----- Forwarded message from Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com> ----- > > On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 08:26:14PM -0700, Matthew Dharm wrote: > > Has anyone written a driver module provide something like > /dev/rtc for > > those platforms that use the CONFIG_NEW_TIME_C? > > > > Yes. I submitted this patch November last year. There was > some discussions, > but no real opposition. Ralf, can you apply this patch? Tom Rini > is supposedly to come up with a unified solution in 2.5+. But until > then this is such a useful thing for MIPS folks. > > http://linux.junsun.net/patches/oss.sgi.com/submitted. > > Jun > > ----- End forwarded message ----- >