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Subject2.6.16-rc4-mm2: drivers/rtc/utils.c should become part of a generic implementation
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 03:10:02AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>...
> Changes since 2.6.16-rc4-mm1:
>...
> +rtc-subsystem-class.patch
>...
> rtc subsystem rework. These patches are being updated.
>...

Always building drivers/rtc/utils.o even if no RTC support is enabled
seems to be a workaround for an issue that should instead be fixed
properly:

The code in e.g. fs/udf/udftime.c or drivers/scsi/ips.c has some
overlaps with what you are adding (they are not doing exactly the
same, but there are overlaps).

We should have one common set of defines/inlines/functions dealing with
all these time conversion, leap year, length of months/years etc. issues
instead of adding one more implementation in this area.

cu
Adrian

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