Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 01:28:14 +0100
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] deprecate EXPORT_SYMBOL(do_settimeofday)
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On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 05:20:18PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 06:13:25PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > You call it "breakage" because you have a relatively dogmatic view 
> > regarding the selection of user visible symbols.
> > Other people care more about the usability of the kernel config system, 
> > and therefore a select of one of the I2C* options is quite common from 
> > both outside and inside the i2c subsystem.
> > 
> > There are two possbile situations:
> > - these RTC drivers are nice add-ons that could be shown if all
> >   required I2C* options are already enabled
> > - these RTC drivers are pretty essential and should really be enabled
> >   on the platforms they are for
> > 
> > Which of these two cases describes the situation of these RTC drivers?
> 
> Since RTCs aren't _actually_ essential for Linux kernel operation,
> the former clearly applies.
> 
> Other people may have differing opinions, but having worked with a
> large number of SoC platforms where the RTC is reset when the SoC
> is reset, or even platforms where there is no RTC at all, it brings
> a different perspective to this that people who have only ever
> experienced systems where the RTC is always true do not have.

No problem with this.

I'm hereby withdrawing my patch.

cu
Adrian

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        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
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