Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757296AbYC1RsX (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:48:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757126AbYC1RsK (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:48:10 -0400 Received: from smtp5.pp.htv.fi ([213.243.153.39]:37986 "EHLO smtp5.pp.htv.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757120AbYC1RsH (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:48:07 -0400 Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:47:50 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: David Brownell , Mark Lord , David Miller , jkosina@suse.cz, gregkh@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, pavel@suse.cz, akpm@linux-foundation.org, rtc-linux@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc7: Ugh. Message-ID: <20080328174750.GH32200@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> References: <20080327160700.GB828@suse.de> <200803272358.20081.david-b@pacbell.net> <20080328091645.GI21413@elte.hu> <200803280249.42193.david-b@pacbell.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1326 Lines: 38 On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 03:56:49PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Friday 2008-03-28 10:49, David Brownell wrote: >> @@ -303,6 +299,7 @@ comment "Platform RTC drivers" >> config RTC_DRV_CMOS >> tristate "PC-style 'CMOS'" >> depends on X86 || ALPHA || ARM || M32R || ATARI || PPC || MIPS >> + default y if X86 >> help >> Say "yes" here to get direct support for the real time clock >> found in every PC or ACPI-based system, and some other boards. > > I do not see why it should default to y, given that udev loads my m > perfectly fine. Then there's no problem with having it default to "y". The usual case is to have a driver disabled by default, and when it's that common that we do not want it disabled by default we can as well immediately let it default to "y". The user still has all three choices. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed -- 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/