On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 07:06:25PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Tom Rini wrote:
>
> > > Yep, it's an excuse for platform maintainers not to write proper drivers.
> >
> > I talked with Al about this off list a bit, and pointed out it's
> > different than it appears. GEN_
On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Tom Rini wrote:
> > Yep, it's an excuse for platform maintainers not to write proper drivers.
>
> I talked with Al about this off list a bit, and pointed out it's
> different than it appears. GEN_RTC really is a mostly-generic RTC
> driver. There's some fakey stuff going on
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 03:40:47PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Sep 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > >From my reading of that code, GEN_RTC should've been called FAKE_RTC...
>
> Yep, it's an excuse for platform maintainers not to write proper drivers.
I talked with Al about th
On Tue, 6 Sep 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >From my reading of that code, GEN_RTC should've been called FAKE_RTC...
Yep, it's an excuse for platform maintainers not to write proper drivers.
> AFAICS, more or less clean solution would be to split the damn thing
> into frontend (parsing of ioc
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 06:51:41PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> Admittedly, the whole RTC situation is quite a mess I have to
> agree.
>
> To make the problem worse, we have two sets of RTC ioctls
> which userland makes use of on Sparc. The older ones which
> the SBUS RTC driver exported and s
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Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 01:56:45 +0100
> Yet another architecture not coverd by GEN_RTC - sparc64 never
> picked it until now and it doesn't have asm/rtc.h to go with it, so
> it wouldn't compile anyway (or have these ioctls in the user-visible
> headers, for that matte
Yet another architecture not coverd by GEN_RTC - sparc64 never
picked it until now and it doesn't have asm/rtc.h to go with it, so
it wouldn't compile anyway (or have these ioctls in the user-visible
headers, for that matter).
FWIW, I'm very tempted to introduce ARCH_HAS_GEN_RTC an
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