Re: [PATCH 1/2] rtc/ia64: remove legacy efirtc driver

[Luck, Tony]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 05:01:58PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> There are two EFI RTC drivers, the original drivers/char/efirtc.c
> driver and the more modern drivers/rtc/rtc-efi.c.
> 
> Both implement the same interface, but the new one does so
> in a more portable way.
> 
> Move everything over to that one and remove the old one.

The new one is more talkative that the old one. I see this extra
line on the console when I boot ia64:

rtc-efi rtc-efi: setting system clock to 2019-10-23T18:30:23 UTC (1571855423)

That seems somewhat useful & informative (though the repeated "rtc-efi"
at the start of the line is redundant).

Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>

-Tony