Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759011AbYFGGif (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jun 2008 02:38:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753269AbYFGGiZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jun 2008 02:38:25 -0400 Received: from smtps.uol.com.br ([200.221.4.131]:57912 "EHLO smtp.uol.com.br" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753112AbYFGGiY (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Jun 2008 02:38:24 -0400 Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 03:38:20 -0300 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Rog=E9rio?= Brito To: Geoff Levand Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [rtc-linux] state of GEN_RTC vs rtc subsystem Message-ID: <20080607063819.GA11623@ime.usp.br> References: <484473E6.5060400@am.sony.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <484473E6.5060400@am.sony.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SIG5: b3fdc315a5fc0fc2bc0de5923762ca42 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1447 Lines: 40 Hi there. On Jun 02 2008, Geoff Levand wrote: > Geoff Levand wrote: > > From what I can tell, those generic rtc routines the powerpc > > arch provides are not properly hooked into the new rtc subsystem. > > This causes problems for multi-platform builds where some platforms > > must use gen_rtc, and some must the new rtc subsytem. > > Just to follow up, I found that David Woodhouse has submitted > a patch which does this: > > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/linuxppc/patch?id=18139 This is nice, since I was just going to ask why my config file (put at http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/debug/config-2.6.26-rc4-4) has (...) # CONFIG_PPC_CLOCK is not set (...) Even if I force it to yes. When I run a "make oldconfig", it sets back the PPC_CLOCK to not set. :-( If anybody can explain what is going on (and how to correct it), I would kindly appreciate it (and even generate some documentation on the options, if I understand the issue it well enough). Regards, Rog?rio Brito. -- Rog?rio Brito : rbrito@{mackenzie,ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito Projects: algorithms.berlios.de : lame.sf.net : vrms.alioth.debian.org -- 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/