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From: olof@lixom.net (Olof Johansson)
To: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	kimphill@freescale.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] generic RTC support for PPC
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 09:24:42 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070206152442.GB21050@lixom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01A15290-2EA9-454A-8DD5-28A01E39862B@kernel.crashing.org>

On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 08:40:33AM -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:
> 
> On Feb 6, 2007, at 5:08 AM, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> 
> >Olof Johansson writes:
> >
> >>Make the PPC RTC functions use the generic RTC infrastructure if they
> >>are not already defined (and an RTC is registered in the system).
> >>
> >>This should make it possible to remove the hideous direct access used
> >>in some of the 83xx platforms.
> >
> >What was the consensus in the end about this?  Should it go in for
> >2.6.21?
> 
> Are the "scheduling while atomic" issues that existed before actually  
> been fixed?
> 
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=116378523012349&w=2

My patch shouldn't do it since it uses a work queue, but that bug report
was for the rtc class api instead of genrtc. It'll need something similar.

I can't even find the rtc_class_hookup code in 2.6.20, so I'm not sure
just what he was running.


-Olof

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-06 15:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-25  7:37 [PATCH] generic RTC support for PPC Olof Johansson
2007-01-30  5:17 ` Tom Rini
2007-01-30  6:37   ` Kumar Gala
2007-01-30 16:03     ` Olof Johansson
2007-01-30 18:53       ` Tom Rini
2007-01-30 19:25       ` Kim Phillips
2007-01-30 19:25         ` Kim Phillips
2007-01-30 19:55         ` David Brownell
2007-01-30 19:55           ` David Brownell
2007-02-06 11:08 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-02-06 14:40   ` Kumar Gala
2007-02-06 15:24     ` Olof Johansson [this message]
2007-02-06 16:16       ` Kumar Gala
2007-02-07  1:55         ` Kim Phillips
2007-02-06 15:16   ` Olof Johansson

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