Re: 2.6 must-fix list, v2

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

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

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