Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758842AbZCBKDc (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Mar 2009 05:03:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756902AbZCBKDW (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Mar 2009 05:03:22 -0500 Received: from mx0.towertech.it ([213.215.222.73]:37891 "HELO mx0.towertech.it" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1756483AbZCBKDV (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Mar 2009 05:03:21 -0500 Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 11:03:10 +0100 From: Alessandro Zummo To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Richard Zidlicky , rtc-linux@googlegroups.com, David Woodhouse , linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Development , David@ozlabs.org, Kyle McMartin , Linux/PPC Development , Linux/m68k , Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: [rtc-linux] Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/5] Generic RTC class driver Message-ID: <20090302110310.35af50ea@i1501.lan.towertech.it> In-Reply-To: References: <1235144809-32468-1-git-send-email-Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> <20090220170454.04382e9e@i1501.lan.towertech.it> <1235511327.18632.73.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <20090224231154.60ba18d6@i1501.lan.towertech.it> <1235514727.18632.93.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <20090225111836.621412c1@i1501.lan.towertech.it> <20090227185514.GA1071@linux-m68k.org> Organization: Tower Technologies X-Mailer: Sylpheed X-This-Is-A-Real-Message: Yes Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 942 Lines: 29 On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 10:54:14 +0100 (CET) Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Indeed. You can have a working RTC class driver for lots of hardware by just > writing ca. 100 lines of code on top of the generic framework. That's true, but we would then have two generic frameworks. And one of them will have its code scattered all around the kernel. So you either use the old rtc framework, which is perfectly functional, or you move to the new rtc lass and write the drivers. Layering a generic framework over another generic framework is quite a nonsense . -- Best regards, Alessandro Zummo, Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy http://www.towertech.it -- 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/