Re: [PATCH v3 04/16] rtc: sh: provide rtc_class_ops directly

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Rich,

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 1:21 AM, Rich Felker <dalias@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Not a complaint about your patch, but I'd like to get rid of this
> platform device and abstraction layer completely since it doesn't seem
> like something that can be modeled correctly in device tree. When
> you're done cleaning this up, will it be possible to just have rtc
> drivers that use whatever generic framework is left, where the right
> driver is automatically attached to compatible DT nodes? I'm trying to
> move all of arch/sh over to device tree and remove hard-coded platform
> devices.

If you describe the RTC in DT, it can bound to a hardware-specific driver
in drivers/rtc/rtc-*.c.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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