Re: [PATCH] sysvinit: Changing default setting to add HWCLOCKACCESS=no

[Denys Dmytriyenko <denys@ti.com>]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 12:19:30PM -0500, Cooper Jr., Franklin wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 12:08:09PM -0500, Cooper Jr., Franklin wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 04:45:43PM +0000, Cooper Jr., Franklin wrote:
> > > > > I see references to several boards that have enabled rtc in its
> > > > > dts file. I didn't check all the boards we support in meta-ti but
> > > > > additional boards may use it. So we shouldn't disable it for these boards.
> > > >
> > > > Exactly, so the proposal was to disable it by default and enable
> > > > through machine overrides for those boards that have it.
> > 
> > > [Franklin] I'm assuming there was some conversation in the background
> > > regarding this patch
> > 
> > Well, not about the patch, but about the problem this patch is trying to fix :)
> > 
> > 
> > > I wasn't aware of since the above two points weren't clear. But no
> > > problem doing with what you suggested as long as enabling it for the
> > > right boards is being done as part of a patch series with this one.
> > 
> > Do we have a list of boards that have RTC? Just glancing over what I have I
> > don't see any...
> [Franklin] am437x sk, am437x gp evm and am57x based on looking at the dt.

Hmm, I don't see any batteries on am437x sk. But x15 does have a battery next 
to Eth port.


> > As an alternative, we can keep it enabled by default and disable it just for
> > Keystone to make Sam happy. But I've seen that error on pretty much every
> > platform lately.

> [Franklin] I would prefer that approach instead. And true about the error 
> but it could be a bug or error that needs to be fixed so I rather not hide 
> it especially since I haven't received any questions regarding it before.

Ok