rtc_ops structure

Jonathan Neuschäfer j.neuschaefer at gmx.net
Sat May 14 19:30:36 EDT 2011


On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 11:46:16AM -0600, Jim Cromie wrote:
> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Vikram Narayanan <vikram186 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is the structure rtc_ops still used in rtc drivers in the new kernels?
> > If not, what is the equivalent of it?
> >
> 
> [jimc at groucho linux-2.6.git]$ grep -r rtc_ops drivers/ |wc
>     159     842   11646
> 
> heres one of them:
> 
> drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c:static const struct rtc_class_ops cmos_rtc_ops = {
> drivers/rtc/rtc-cmos.c:				&cmos_rtc_ops, THIS_MODULE);
> 
> So Id say "yes"

That's rtc_class_ops.

Searching for the exact word "rtc_ops" avoids these false positives:
$ grep -r "\<rtc_ops\>" drivers/
$

rtc_class_ops (include/linux/rtc.h) seems to be that equivalent.

Hope this helps,
	Jonathan Neuschäfer



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