Re: [PATCH v3 04/16] rtc: sh: provide rtc_class_ops directly

From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>,
	Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	alpha <linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 04/16] rtc: sh: provide rtc_class_ops directly
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 09:21:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMuHMdVP3QWvyY11sw-Y440MFpxtjcZRQ+pAP76p35qFvcye6g__31626.138641923$1461828079$gmane$org@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160427232122.GW21636@brightrain.aerifal.cx>

Hi Rich,

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 1:21 AM, Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> wrote:
> Not a complaint about your patch, but I'd like to get rid of this
> platform device and abstraction layer completely since it doesn't seem
> like something that can be modeled correctly in device tree. When
> you're done cleaning this up, will it be possible to just have rtc
> drivers that use whatever generic framework is left, where the right
> driver is automatically attached to compatible DT nodes? I'm trying to
> move all of arch/sh over to device tree and remove hard-coded platform
> devices.

If you describe the RTC in DT, it can bound to a hardware-specific driver
in drivers/rtc/rtc-*.c.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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