Re: Problem due to removing ppc64 rtc.c?

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 15:45 +0530, Sripathi Kodi wrote:

> 
> Before your changes,  rtc_ioctl was implemented in the PPC  specific rtc.c and
> it used  to call ppc_md.get_rtc_time  for RTC_RD_TIME,  which I think  used to
> end  up  in  rtas_get_rtc_time.  After  your changes,  time  is  now  read  in
> rtc_get_rtc_time using CMOS_READ calls, which apparently is resulting in wrong
> values being  read. I changed  rtc_do_ioctl to make it  call rtas_get_rtc_time
> for RTC_RD_TIME call and the problem went away.
> 
> Have I  missed something or  does this  need fixing? Do  we really need  a PPC
> specific rtc_ioctl call that calls into rtas_get_rtc_time?

I think the problem is that you still have CONFIG_RTC in your .config
instead of CONFIG_GEN_RTC

Ben.


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