Re: [PATCH 3/3] iio: add rtc-driver for HID sensors of type time

[Alexander Holler]

Am 09.12.2012 13:55, schrieb Lars-Peter Clausen:
> On 12/09/2012 01:21 PM, Alexander Holler wrote:
> > This driver makes the time from HID sensors (hubs) which are offering
> > such available like any other RTC does.
> >
> > Currently the time can only be read. Setting the time must be done
> > through sending a report, which currently isn't supported by
> > hid-sensor-hub.
> >
> > It is necessary that all values like year, month etc, are send as
> > 8bit values (1 byte each) and all of them in 1 report. Also the
> > spec HUTRR39b doesn't define the range of the year field, we
> > tread it as 0 - 99 because that's what most RTCs I know about are
> > offering.
>
> I don't think we should register a IIO device for this. Just an RTC device
> should be fully sufficient.

You would have to implement all the used services hid-sensor-hub offers 
in the rtc-driver again.

Regards,

Alexander

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