Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763622AbYBTRHX (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:07:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753941AbYBTRGh (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:06:37 -0500 Received: from mx0.towertech.it ([213.215.222.73]:48496 "HELO mx0.towertech.it" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1754918AbYBTRGf (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:06:35 -0500 Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:03:25 +0100 From: Alessandro Zummo To: rtc-linux@googlegroups.com Cc: galak@kernel.crashing.org, LKML Kernel , linuxppc-dev list , rz@linux-m68k.org Subject: Re: [rtc-linux] state of GEN_RTC vs rtc subsystem Message-ID: <20080220180325.46446675@i1501.lan.towertech.it> In-Reply-To: <47B18612-66A3-476C-B81C-F2FD11CE9A64@kernel.crashing.org> References: <47B18612-66A3-476C-B81C-F2FD11CE9A64@kernel.crashing.org> Organization: Tower Technologies X-Mailer: Sylpheed Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1025 Lines: 35 On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:11:23 -0600 Kumar Gala wrote: > > Is the functionality provided by drivers/char/gen_rtc.c completely > handled by the rtc subsystem in drivers/rtc? > > I ask for two reasons: > 1. should we make it mutually exclusive in Kconfig > 2. I've enabled both and get (we'll my defconfig did): They shouldn't be enabled at once. I think a patch for Kconfig has been recently submitted to give a warning in such a case. rtc-cmos should be able to handle the vast majority of x86 rtcs out there. The only real open issue is related to the ntp synchronization mode and will be solved only when we can get rid of it :) -- Best regards, Alessandro Zummo, Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy http://www.towertech.it -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/