Subject: Re: proposal for changes to todr interface
To: Garrett D'Amore <garrett_damore@tadpole.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/06/2006 11:33:02
On Sep 6, 2006, at 9:53 AM, Garrett D'Amore wrote:

> I was assuming the clock driver would set it.  How it makes that
> decision could vary.  For drivers that are MD, it could just be set.
> For some drivers it could be set by "md-specific" attachment code.   
> For
> truly MI drivers (like i2c drivers), in my opinion these parameters
> should be passed into the driver from properties set by MD-specific
> autoconfig().

Yah, device_register() could set a "todr-use-localtime" property to  
<true/> or <false/>, and MI drivers could query that.

-- thorpej