Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932615Ab2EOMl2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 May 2012 08:41:28 -0400 Received: from arkanian.console-pimps.org ([212.110.184.194]:56237 "EHLO arkanian.console-pimps.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932092Ab2EOMl1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 May 2012 08:41:27 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH, resend] x86: enable rtc-efi From: Matt Fleming To: Matthew Garrett Cc: Jan Beulich , mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com, dannf@dannf.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20120515123811.GA25248@srcf.ucam.org> References: <4FB263560200007800083CB0@nat28.tlf.novell.com> <20120515123811.GA25248@srcf.ucam.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 13:41:17 +0100 Message-ID: <1337085677.27692.19.camel@mfleming-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.3 (2.32.3-1.fc14) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 879 Lines: 23 On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 13:38 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 01:08:22PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: > > Besides a Kconfig change this just requires creating a corresponding > > platform device. > > I don't think this is a good idea yet - we completely fail to perform > timezone handling with the EFI clock, which violates platform > expectations. We should fix that up first. Last time I spoke to Thomas about this, the impression I got was that the kernel didn't need to worry about handling the timezone for this case. Unless I'm missing something? -- Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- 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/