question about rtc command

[Sebastian Huber]

----- Am 4. Jun 2018 um 16:27 schrieb joel joel at rtems.org:

> On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 9:14 AM, Gedare Bloom <gedare at rtems.org> wrote:
> 
>> Indeed, this 'rtc' shell command seems to be a bit of a misnomer. It
>> conflates access to two different clocks, the tod and rtc. Probably,
>> it would be better to provide a separate 'tod' command that
>> reads/writes the tod values, and refactor this 'rtc' to read/write the
>> rtc. I'm not quite sure about the correctness of writing to the rtc
>> without updating the tod, though.
>>
> 
> Speaking from RTEMS history here. We tended to use Time of Day
> to refer to what RTEMS was maintaining and Real-Time Clock to
> review to battery backed clocks that are ICs. This matches Wikipedia's
> definition and example of a DS1307.
> 
> The driver framework in RTEMS is referred to as RTC but some BSPs
> call the driver TOD and name files and directories accordingly.
> 
> Renaming TOD drivers to RTC derived names has been on my wish
> list for a long time.

All the RTC drivers should be now in an "rtc" directory.