From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754245AbYIJVkU (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:40:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752988AbYIJVkH (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:40:07 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:39276 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752957AbYIJVkG (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:40:06 -0400 Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:40:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20080910.144000.111159506.davem@davemloft.net> To: david-b@pacbell.net Cc: rdunlap@xenotime.net, akpm@linux-foundation.org, James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, alessandro.zummo@towertech.it, tglx@linutronix.de Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix RTC_CLASS regression with PARISC From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <200809101436.26162.david-b@pacbell.net> References: <200809101419.05499.david-b@pacbell.net> <20080910.142047.265458325.davem@davemloft.net> <200809101436.26162.david-b@pacbell.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.1 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: David Brownell Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:36:25 -0700 > Of course, you're very unlikely to sleep while waiting for that > mutex; or even while holding it, if you stick to Sun hardware. > Someone running Linux on one of the FPGA-based SPARCs might well > use an I2C based RTC though. There are at least one or two sparc workstations and/or servers that use an I2C based RTC, I just haven't written the driver yet :)