Re: [rtc-linux] Re: [PATCH] RTC: Add functionality to read/write rtc scratch registers

From: Keerthy
Date: Sun Jul 16 2017 - 09:50:06 EST




On Friday 14 July 2017 02:13 AM, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 05/05/2017 at 00:38:27 +0200, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 03/05/2017 at 11:39:34 +0530, Keerthy wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 18 April 2017 10:50 AM, Keerthy wrote:
>>>> From: Russ Dill <Russ.Dill@xxxxxx>
>>>>
>>>> Many RTCs provide scratch registers that are maintained so long as the RTC
>>>> has power. Provide a generic method to access these registers.
>>>>
>>>
>>> A gentle ping on this
>>>
>>
>> Yeah, I apologize for the delay (I know you already sent this 6-8 months
>> ago).
>> I'm not satisfied with the interface (and its name). I gave a lot of
>> thought into it and I'm currently reworking part of the subsystem to
>> create a similar feature. I'm planning to have it in 4.13.
>>
>
> So, the nvmem stuff is now in 4.13. If you can still wait a bit, I'll
> implement it myself and test on am335x.

Sure.

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