Subject: Re: [patch 3/3] mpc8349emitx.dts: Add ds1339 RTC

From: Peter Korsgaard <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 07:33:15 +0200

>>>>> "David" == David Gibson <[email-masked]> writes:

Hi,

 >> The Linux driver for the chip (rtc-1307.c) doesn't expose the NVRAM
 >> bytes either.

 David> Incidentally how are you planning on instantiating the driver?  AFAIK
 David> all the rtc-* drivers are platform drivers rather than of_platform
 David> drivers.  I had been thinking of an rtc helper function that would go
 David> through the tree instantiating platform devices for any RTCs based on
 David> a compatible -> platform device name table.

Please see patch #2 in the series:

http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2007-September/042896.html

That helper function more or less already exists in fsl_soc.c.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard