Re: [PATCH] POWERPC: Added RTC support for mpc8313RDB and utilize "clock-frequency"

On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Vitaly Bordug wrote:

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Please don't do this; drivers/i2c/chips/ds1337.c is deprecated.  You
should be using the RTC-class driver in drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1307.c, which
has a non-device-specific API that can be used.

The ppc_md RTC functions should really just go away, though -- setting
the clock on bootup can be done by generic code, and periodically
updating the RTC when using NTP can be done from userspace.

If those ppc_md hookups would be declared deprecated, there's no much sense in the upper,
apparently. But I am not sure they will be... I'm inclined to let this patch floating since
interacting with rtc class from within BSP code just does not worth it.

Exactly! Don't interact with it. Just leave it alone. No need to re-write 
[sg]et_rtc_time, bother with setting system time on bootup... Just let the 
rtc driver and framework do it for you.

Thanks
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski