Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753734AbZGTVIF (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:08:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752919AbZGTVIE (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:08:04 -0400 Received: from mail-gx0-f213.google.com ([209.85.217.213]:51016 "EHLO mail-gx0-f213.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751555AbZGTVID convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:08:03 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20090720205726.GD4295@vespa.holoscopio.com> References: <1246766879-5784-1-git-send-email-cascardo@holoscopio.com> <20090720131959.3b157627.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090720205726.GD4295@vespa.holoscopio.com> From: Kay Sievers Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:07:47 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] RTC: mark if rtc-cmos drivers were successfully registered. To: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Cc: Andrew Morton , rtc-linux@googlegroups.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net, bjorn.helgaas@hp.com, Alessandro Zummo , Linus Torvalds , Greg KH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1155 Lines: 27 On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 22:57, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote: > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:32:06PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 22:19, Andrew Morton wrote: >> > I believe Kay was planning on making the driver core more robust, so >> > that crash shouldn't be happening any more.  Kay, can you please confirm >> > that thsi got fixed? >> >> This is supposed to fix it: >>   http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=5c8563d773c0e9f0ac2a552e84806decd98ce732 > Yes, but instead of an oops, we get a warning when the driver could just > behave properly. That's the intention of this patch: do not warn the > user when there's nothing to warn about, as long as the driver behaves > itself. Sure, it was not supposed to fix the rtc issue properly, it's just to make it not oops. :) Thanks, Kay -- 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/