[PATCH v7 06/10] rtc: at91sam9: rework the Kconfig description

Nicolas Ferre nicolas.ferre at atmel.com
Tue Sep 23 03:08:47 PDT 2014


On 23/09/2014 11:38, Boris BREZILLON :
> Remove all references to AT91CAP9 SoC which has been removed.
> Rework the help message to remove any specific references to AT91SAM9 SoCs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Boris BREZILLON <boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com>
> ---
>  drivers/rtc/Kconfig | 17 +++++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/rtc/Kconfig b/drivers/rtc/Kconfig
> index 7d76da8..455f2c3 100644
> --- a/drivers/rtc/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/rtc/Kconfig
> @@ -1079,17 +1079,18 @@ config RTC_DRV_AT91RM9200
>  	  this is powered by the backup power supply.
>  
>  config RTC_DRV_AT91SAM9
> -	tristate "AT91SAM9x/AT91CAP9 RTT as RTC"
> +	tristate "AT91SAM9 RTT as RTC"
>  	depends on ARCH_AT91 && !(ARCH_AT91RM9200 || ARCH_AT91X40)
>  	select MFD_SYSCON
>  	help
> -	  RTC driver for the Atmel AT91SAM9x and AT91CAP9 internal RTT
> -	  (Real Time Timer). These timers are powered by the backup power
> -	  supply (such as a small coin cell battery), but do not need to
> -	  be used as RTCs.
> -
> -	  (On AT91SAM9rl and AT91SAM9G45 chips you probably want to use the
> -	  dedicated RTC module and leave the RTT available for other uses.)
> +	  Some AT91SAM9 SoCs provide an RTT (Real Time Timer) block which
> +	  can be used as an RTC thanks to the backup power supply (e.g. a
> +	  small coin cell battery) which keeps this block and the GPBR
> +	  (General Purpose Backup Registers) block powered when the device
> +	  is shutdown.
> +	  Some AT91SAM9 SoCs provide a real RTC block, on those ones you'd
> +	  probably want to use the real RTC block instead of the RTT as an
> +	  RTT driver.

You mean:
"instead of the RTT as an RTC"

With that, good description: thanks!

Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre at atmel.com>

So, now we can think of what to do with the series:

- Johan, do you want to "Ack" it?
- may I take it through the arm-soc git tree (likely for the 3.19 dev.
phase).

Your thoughts?

Bye,

>  
>  config RTC_DRV_AT91SAM9_RTT
>  	int
> 


-- 
Nicolas Ferre



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