Ralf Baechle wrote:
>
> What application need the /dev/rtc periodic interrupt? I'm porting to
> a platoform which uses a M58T35 RTC which doesn't supply such an
> interrupt, so the question is if it's worth to care at all and possibly
> emulate an timer interrupt from another source.
The RTC driver doesn't make much sense without interrupts... look at
the API in include/linux/rtc.h. Without interrupts, you are just
querying the RTC status, which (I am guessing) is different on the
M58T35.
So, with no interrupts and a different status byte output, it sounds
like a completely new chrdev driver to me... :)
BTW, Andrea, since I think (???) this was your patch, why do you disable
RTC interrupt on Alpha platform? You might as well disable the entire
driver at that point IMHO...
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