Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753549AbcD0Joc (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2016 05:44:32 -0400 Received: from down.free-electrons.com ([37.187.137.238]:49409 "EHLO mail.free-electrons.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752988AbcD0Jo2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2016 05:44:28 -0400 Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 11:44:10 +0200 From: Alexandre Belloni To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , tony.luck@intel.com, geert@linux-m68k.org, jejb@parisc-linux.org, deller@gmx.de, benh@kernel.crashing.org, mpe@ellerman.id.au, dalias@libc.org, dhowells@redhat.com, yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com, rth@twiddle.net, ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, a.zummo@towertech.it, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, rtc-linux@googlegroups.com, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: char: legacy RTC cleanups Message-ID: <20160427094410.GJ3264@piout.net> References: <1461707052-1337718-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1461707052-1337718-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 937 Lines: 23 On 26/04/2016 at 23:44:04 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote : > I've had these patches in my tree for a while, after the first one > had a few issues that are fixed in this new version. The old-style > PC RTC driver is now also disabled on m68k (as pointed out by > Geert), ppc (it was also blacklisted), and m32r (I showed that > it did not build). > > For the genrtc driver, rearranging the headers makes it simpler > to use and reduces duplication. In case of alpha and mn10300, > I've shown that the genrtc and rtc drivers are doing the same > thing, so we don't need them both. The remaining three > architectures (m68k, parisc, powerpc) actually all support > the newer rtc-generic driver, so we could remove genrtc completely > if we want to. > Personally, I'd go for the kill and remove genrtc instead of cleaning it up. -- Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com