Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263926AbUDFXPu (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Apr 2004 19:15:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264067AbUDFXPu (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Apr 2004 19:15:50 -0400 Received: from palrel13.hp.com ([156.153.255.238]:61068 "EHLO palrel13.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263926AbUDFXPs (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Apr 2004 19:15:48 -0400 From: David Mosberger MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16499.14880.938413.166692@napali.hpl.hp.com> Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 16:15:44 -0700 To: Bjorn Helgaas Cc: Tom Rini , Andrew Morton , p_gortmaker@yahoo.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] don't offer GEN_RTC on ia64 In-Reply-To: <200404061637.48475.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> References: <200404061622.49260.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> <20040406223416.GH31152@smtp.west.cox.net> <200404061637.48475.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.18 under Emacs 21.3.1 Reply-To: davidm@hpl.hp.com X-URL: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/David_Mosberger/ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 764 Lines: 17 >>>>> On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 16:37:48 -0600, Bjorn Helgaas said: Bjorn> I'd actually like to do that, but that's a longer-term Bjorn> project. And I don't know the history behind efi_rtc, so Bjorn> maybe there's a good reason for it being separate. AFAIR, when efirtc was being written, the normal RTC driver was specific to the PC clock chips (mc14whatever) and it wasn't clear whether it should even try to be generic. I don't think anybody is particularly attached to the bits. --david - 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/