Re: /dev/rtc not suspending/resuming properly

[Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>]

On Tue 2006-07-11 11:57:43, Brad Campbell wrote:
> Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> >>I've had a pretty good look at drivers/char/rtc.c and I can't see 
> >>anywhere it would actually suspend/resume in the code, and investigation 
> >>shows it does not appear to re-init the hardware on resume.
> >
> >Well, you probably need to write suspend/resume support for it...
> 
> So it would seem..
> 
> I know absolutely nothing about the driver model (let alone C or kernel 
> voodo in general) and have been investigating Documentation/driver-model. 
> Would I be close if I were to suggest this needs to be a platform_driver? 
> I'll certainly have a crack at it if I'm on the right track.
> 
> I've been having a look at some of the other drivers that use 
> platform_driver however I'm a bit stumped at how I go about iterating 
> through the various sparc buses using the platform_driver resource 
> allocation functions.
> 
> #ifdef __sparc__
>         struct linux_ebus *ebus;
>         struct linux_ebus_device *edev;
> #ifdef __sparc_v9__
>         struct sparc_isa_bridge *isa_br;
>         struct sparc_isa_device *isa_dev;
> #endif
> #endif

So you are working on sparc?

> Or, do I just dodgy it up as the rtc is a legacy device, and leave the 
> probe/allocation code alone and just add the pm stuff?

I'd do that first, to get it working...
									Pavel
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