Re: [PATCH 7/7] powerpc/ps3: Add rtc-ps3

From: Geoff Levand
Date: Mon Mar 09 2009 - 14:51:44 EST


On 03/09/2009 06:26 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Create a real RTC driver for PS3, and unhook the deprecated
> ppc_md.[gs]et_rtc_time.

> 8 files changed, 132 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

Sorry, I hadn't been following the discussion closely, but
could you explain why we are going from a generic framework
where we hook in our platform specific part to a totally
independent driver that has such an increase in code size.

Why couldn't you fix the generic part so that udev could
load it automatically?

I much prefer to have this code in the platform support
code as it was. It is much more effort (a pain) to maintain
a separate driver were I have to cater to a subsystem's
maintainer, and with this rtc it seems everyone who was
using the generic PPC driver will need to do the same.

-Geoff

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