On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 08:30:05PM +0900, Atsushi Nemoto wrote: > > By the way, with this patch, individual board can not implement it's > own genrtc routines. How about making gen_rtc_time, etc. pointer to > functions to allow overrides? > Is this necessary? How about letting us wait until there is a sensible need? > I think implementing rtc_get_time (mips specific) with get_rtc_time > (genrtc) is more efficient than implementing get_rtc_time with > rtc_get_time for most RTC chips. > If I understand you correctly, you like to have board rtc read routines to return a rtc structure instead of the unsigned long integer. There are actually boards which makes the current implementation more efficient. See vr4181. In general, however, this is not a bad idea, just involving a lot more board level changes. I think it deserves another patch or even debate. Jun
