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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>,
	Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Alek Du <alek.du@intel.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
	Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] x86/mrst: add vrtc driver which serves as a wall clock device
Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 12:56:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BE47059.8090101@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1273259187.1540.75.camel@Joe-Laptop.home>

On 05/07/2010 12:06 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 20:02 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
>> On Fri, 07 May 2010 11:51:06 -0700
>> Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 10:41 -0700, Jacob Pan wrote: 
>>>> +	printk(KERN_INFO "vRTC: sec: %d min: %d hour: %d day: %d "
>>>> +	"mon: %d year: %d\n", sec, min, hour, mday, mon, year);
>>> Even though many of the rtc drivers print this way, it seems
>>> a very backwards way of presenting time to me.
>> Consistency is really more important here IMHO - lots of drivers have set
>> an existing policy.
> 
> (added Alessandro Zummo to cc's)
> 
> look at drivers/rtc.
> 
> All of them seem to use a templated copy/paste dev_dbg,
> which seems to point to a use for a possible common rtc_util.c
> or some such where this could be standardized.
>  
> Is there somewhere else this style is used?
> 

Probably the right thing to do is to (a) move all this printing to
common code; (b) change to ISO 8601 format.

	-hpa


  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-07 19:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-07 17:41 [PATCH 0/8] Moorestown changes in arch/x86 for 35 merge window Jacob Pan
2010-05-07 17:41 ` [PATCH 1/8] x86: avoid check hlt if no timer interrupts Jacob Pan
2010-05-07 20:32   ` RFD: Should we remove the HLT check? (was Re: [PATCH 1/8] x86: avoid check hlt if no timer interrupts) H. Peter Anvin
2010-05-07 20:33     ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-05-07 20:36       ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-05-07 22:24         ` Alan Cox
2010-05-07 22:27           ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-05-07 22:46             ` Alan Cox
2010-05-07 22:35           ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-05-07 20:54       ` Linus Torvalds
2010-05-07 21:04         ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-05-07 22:07           ` jacob pan
2010-05-07 17:41 ` [PATCH 2/8] x86/mrst/pci: return 0 for non-present pci bars Jacob Pan
2010-05-07 17:41 ` [PATCH 3/8] x86/apic: allow use of lapic timer early calibration result Jacob Pan
2010-05-11 13:46   ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-05-11 19:42     ` Pan, Jacob jun
2010-05-11 19:50       ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-05-11 20:46         ` Pan, Jacob jun
2010-05-11 20:51           ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-05-07 17:41 ` [PATCH 4/8] x86/mrst: change clock selection logic to support medfield Jacob Pan
2010-05-11 14:36   ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-05-11 15:30     ` Alan Cox
2010-05-11 15:50       ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-05-11 16:03         ` Alan Cox
2010-05-13 22:16     ` Pan, Jacob jun
2010-05-17  2:14     ` Du, Alek
2010-05-17  2:27     ` Du, Alek
2010-05-07 17:41 ` [PATCH 5/8] x86/apbt: support more timer configurations on mrst Jacob Pan
2010-05-07 17:41 ` [PATCH 6/8] x86/platform: add a wallclock_init func to x86_platforms ops Jacob Pan
2010-05-11 14:42   ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-05-07 17:41 ` [PATCH 7/8] x86/mrst: add vrtc driver which serves as a wall clock device Jacob Pan
2010-05-07 18:51   ` Joe Perches
2010-05-07 19:02     ` Alan Cox
2010-05-07 19:06       ` Joe Perches
2010-05-07 19:56         ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2010-05-10  9:17           ` Feng Tang
2010-05-10 18:22             ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-05-11  2:30               ` Feng Tang
2010-05-11 14:57   ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-05-12  2:34     ` Feng Tang
2010-05-17  9:15       ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-05-18  6:27         ` Feng Tang
2010-05-18  7:38           ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-05-18 20:43         ` john stultz
2010-05-18 21:02           ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-05-21  2:15         ` [PATCH 1/3] timekeeping: moving xtime's init to a later time Feng Tang
2010-05-21  2:16         ` [PATCH 2/3] x86: unify current 3 similar ways of saving IRQ info Feng Tang
2010-05-21  2:19         ` [PATCH 3/3] x86/mrst: add vrtc driver which serves as a wall clock device Feng Tang
2010-05-07 17:41 ` [PATCH 8/8] x86/mrst: Add nop functions to x86_init mpparse functions Jacob Pan

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