Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261190AbTENH6P (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2003 03:58:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261198AbTENH6O (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2003 03:58:14 -0400 Received: from mail2.sonytel.be ([195.0.45.172]:28591 "EHLO witte.sonytel.be") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261190AbTENH6L (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2003 03:58:11 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 10:09:46 +0200 (MEST) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Russell King cc: Dave Jones , Andrew Morton , Christoph Hellwig , Alan Cox , Linux Kernel Development Subject: Re: 2.6 must-fix list, v2 In-Reply-To: <20030514004332.I15172@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1338 Lines: 32 On Wed, 14 May 2003, Russell King wrote: > - I think we need a generic RTC driver (which is backed by real RTCs). > Integrator-based stuff has a 32-bit 1Hz counter RTC with alarm, as > has the SA11xx, and probably PXA. There's another implementation > for the RiscPC and ARM26 stuff. I'd rather not see 4 implementations > of the RTC userspace API, but one common implementation so that stuff > gets done in a consistent way. > > We postponed this at the beginning of 2.4 until 2.5 happened. We're > now at 2.5, and I'm about to add at least one more (the Integrator > implementation.) This isn't sane imo. What about adding the periodic counter and alarm support to drivers/char/genrtc.c? Genrtc is used on m68k, PA-RISC, PPC, MIPS (private tree), and even on ia32. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/