Re: a patch for generic MIPS RTC

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>]

On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Atsushi Nemoto wrote:

> 3. We should protect rtc_set_mmss() call during get_rtc_time or
>    set_rtc_time (this is not your patch's fault).
> 
> How about this patch?  The rtc_lock could be manipulated in each
> RTC-dependent routines, but I choose a simple way for now.

 That's how other architectures do this, see e.g. 
"arch/alpha/kernel/time.c".  Why should we be different, even for now?  
Also the call is named rtc_set_mmss() for an unknown reason while all the 
others have set_rtc_mmss().

  Maciej