Jakub wrote:
> On the other hand, introducing several layers of time services and
> drivers may seem unnecessarily complicated. In my view, the driver would
> be device specific, but it would talk a generic time protocol, pretty
> much in the same way as block device drivers are device specific, but
> they speak the unifying block device protocol.
Of course, you only need the generic server when you want to multiplex 
information from multiple sources/drivers (e.g. RTC, NTP, etc.) At this point, 
when there's just the RTC driver, we don't need it / we can optimize it away / 
and the application could directly connect to the hw-specific driver/server 
that would implement a standard interface.

Cheers
-Jiri

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