Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759123AbYBUJYX (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:24:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752156AbYBUJYL (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:24:11 -0500 Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.134.185]:11138 "EHLO mu-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751819AbYBUJYH (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:24:07 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent:sender; b=VjqDwgstwzdl6FmNtKf19Sq1scvPavNbW5WtgCxEWk/57dZQW6qZZddbyHP5RyJPICLAimgpFb99LxFCDmxihi/pMbzjV27RyBvpoXwj34AvKa3StjFZmU08nBpqjvshWVxCI2cIV8IwQmnEiQa9++ST48qiT7kCOuehCSst/Hw= Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:26:17 +0100 From: Richard Zidlicky To: Kumar Gala Cc: a.zummo@towertech.it, rtc-linux@googlegroups.com, LKML Kernel , linuxppc-dev list Subject: Re: state of GEN_RTC vs rtc subsystem Message-ID: <20080221092616.GA999@linux-m68k.org> References: <47B18612-66A3-476C-B81C-F2FD11CE9A64@kernel.crashing.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47B18612-66A3-476C-B81C-F2FD11CE9A64@kernel.crashing.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 705 Lines: 15 On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:11:23AM -0600, Kumar Gala wrote: > Is the functionality provided by drivers/char/gen_rtc.c completely handled > by the rtc subsystem in drivers/rtc? they were not designed work parallel at the same. Not sure if there is ever a valid reason to have both comiled into one kernel image - might be for some architectures - but when the situation is not handled correctly the easiest fix is to make them mutually exclusive. Richard -- 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/