Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/14] Convert remaining arches toread/update_persistent_clock

[David Miller]

From: Paul Mundt <lethal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:08:10 +0900

> In any event, I wonder if it might make more sense to take something like
> the SPARC implementation that is simply a wrapper around the RTC, move
> that out in to a more generic place, and permit architectures to select
> an RTC class backed persistent clock instead (it seems to be only
> platforms that haven't caught up yet in terms of generic time and RTC
> migration that would want to define this interface on their own at all at
> this point)?

This sounds nice but don't we have a slew of RTC types that need
to be accessed over I2C and thus you can't touch them without
sleeping?
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