From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Subject: Re: Would setting the CONFIG_RTC option break the powerpc kernel
	on your machine ?
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>
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>  1) could a #ifdef __powerpc__ not be enough ?

No. _machine is only defined for the "multiarch" config (PREP/CHRP/PMAC)

>  2) The other failures in rtc_init return -EIO, not -ENODEV.

Well, in this case, -ENODEV makes more sense, though nothing really
cares except the kind of error message the user will get when using
it as a module.

> Friendly,
>
> Sven Luther
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>


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