Commit Graph

4 Commits (9e86ecb659f11b36b5e189214b19cb31ef5dfd72)

Author SHA1 Message Date
Sonny Rao 6ac12dfe9c [PATCH] rtc: fix idr locking
We need to serialize access to the global rtc_idr even in this error path.

Signed-off-by: Sonny Rao <sonny@burdell.org>
Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-27 17:32:40 -07:00
Alessandro Zummo 110d693d58 [PATCH] rtc subsystem: add capability checks
Centralize CAP_SYS_XXX checks to avoid duplicate code and missing checks in
the drivers.

Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:14 -07:00
Alessandro Zummo d1d65b7712 [PATCH] RTC subsystem: compact error messages
Move registration error message from drivers to core.

Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11 06:18:47 -07:00
Alessandro Zummo 0c86edc0d4 [PATCH] RTC subsystem: class
Add the basic RTC subsystem infrastructure to the kernel.

rtc/class.c - registration facilities for RTC drivers
rtc/interface.c - kernel/rtc interface functions
rtc/hctosys.c - snippet of code that copies hw clock to sw clock
		at bootup, if configured to do so.

Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-27 08:44:51 -08:00