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Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>:
> Unless the user wants to use drivers/char/rtc.c because they're on a
> chrp or prep box.

OK, so the derivation right side should change a little (I'll take a patch).

The actual point is one of design philosophy.  Instead of presenting the 
ser with unnecessarily platform-specific questions, we should be asking
platform-independent (wherever this is possible) questions about the 
*capabilities* he/she wants and mixing that wuith information about the
platform.

I'll go further than that.  PP_RTC should probably never have existed
as a user-visible symbol and question in the first place, as it
duplicates what PPC is asking.  The derivation should actually take
place somewhere in the C code of the PPC port tree.
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