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Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 09:32:50 +0200
From: Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de>
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To: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
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CC: John Whitmore <arigead@gmail.com>, Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2][RFC] Try to handle hctosys w/ rtc modules
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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.

Looks good but doesn't work => high quality. ;)
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