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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc7: Ugh.
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:14:52 -0700
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On Friday 28 March 2008, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > 	If we think that an approach is superior (which
> > your new RTC code certainly is), we have to take up the responsibility
> > of pushing that as a prominent, default choice and excluding the old
> > code. That ends up benefiting everyone, reduces complexity of the
> > kernel. You wont see anyone shed tears for the old code.
> 
> Users with audio-related usage patterns do, as SND_RTCTIMER
> still depends on old rtc :-/

-ENOPATCH :)

Last time this specific issue came up, a related point was
that the relevant ALSA documentation in this area needed
updating too.  ISTR it assumed there was only one kind of
RTC, and had a few other issues.

- Dave

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