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Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 10:31:16 -0700
From: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Lukas Geyer <geyer@ml.kva.se>
Subject: Re: Two issues with 2.4.18pre3 on PPC
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On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 12:10:58PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>:
> > Eric, do you think you could modify the CONFIG_RTC help entry to mention
> > that on PPC you should use the CONFIG_PPC_RTC option and not CONFIG_RTC,
> > if in doubt?  That's probably the best fix for 2.4.x
> 
> Done.
> 
> However, the *right* fix is
> 
> derive PPC_RTC from RTC & ((S390==n and APUS==n) or (APUS!=n and CONFIG_4xx))

Unless the user wants to use drivers/char/rtc.c because they're on a
chrp or prep box.

The right fix is to make everyone use the m68k tree's actually generic
rtc driver in 2.5 :)

-- 
Tom Rini (TR1265)
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
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