On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 09:32:50 +0200 Alexander Holler <hol...@ahsoftware.de> wrote:
> Am 28.06.2014 09:18, schrieb Alexander Holler: > > Am 27.06.2014 19:27, schrieb John Stultz: > >> Its been pointed out that the RTC hctosys functionality doesn't > >> work well with RTC modules, which may not be loaded until after > >> late_init(). > >> > >> While there have been other attempts to sovle this, this patchset > >> is a very quick 10 minute effort to show how I'd try to resolve > >> this. There likely are still issues here, but I'd be happy to > >> make fixes and adjustments to ensure it works. > > How long you needed to getthe idea? > > >> > >> Feedback and comments always appreciated! > > > > And it still uses the non-deterministic and therefor almost unusable > > rtcN. Well done. > > Besides that the current hctosys-mechanism doesn't really work with > hot-plugable devices at all. Guess what N will be when you unplug and > plug in such a RTC again. We have a patch in the kernel which binds the rtc number to the hw device, so this even works for hotpluggable devices (at least on systems supporting device-tree). Not sure what your needs are. Marc -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
