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From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
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Subject: Re: X86: Impossible select Enhanced Real Time Clock Support (legacy
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On Mon, 28 Apr 2014, Alessandro Zummo wrote:

> > But it sounds like the driver/char/rtc bit is dead code, and needs a
> > cleanup? Or is there some use of that code that you need that the
> > generic RTC layer doesn't have?
> 
>  as far as I know, no recent distribution is using the old code anymore 
>  and the new (well, not so new anymore) framework provides the same 
>  functionality.

 Well, the handling of update-ended interrupts is still missing, as is 
some non-x86 stuff I posted a fix for recently (still pending review, can 
you please look into it sometime?).

  Maciej