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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Cc: "Zhang, Rui" <rui.zhang@intel.com>,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, lenb@kernel.org,
	Alessandro Zummo <alessandro.zummo@towertech.it>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 1/3] Allow to override the RTC alarm time
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:12:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200804102212.16151.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1207917861.9448.42.camel@yakui_zhao.sh.intel.com>

On Friday 11 April 2008, Zhao Yakui wrote:
> 
>   There is another question about the driver rtc and rtc-cmos.
> rtc driver is in drivers/char/ and rtc-cmos is in drivers/rtc/

A patch that's pending for 2.6.26 (in MM) makes sure that only
one of those can ever be configured.


> On some laptops the two drivers will share the same memory/irq resource,
> which will cause that rtc-cmos driver can't work well after the rtc
> driver is already loaded.(Of course RTC sys I/F isn't created in rtc
> driver.)

That's a configuration error.  If the new RTC framework is in
use, legacy drivers should not be used.

- Dave


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  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-11  5:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-09  6:34 [RFC] [PATCH 1/3] Allow to override the RTC alarm time Zhao Yakui
2008-04-09  7:34 ` David Brownell
2008-04-09  7:46   ` Zhang, Rui
2008-04-09  8:27     ` David Brownell
2008-04-09 16:55       ` Zhao Yakui
2008-04-09 10:13         ` David Brownell
2008-04-10 11:08           ` Zhao Yakui
2008-04-11  5:13             ` David Brownell
2008-04-11 11:04           ` Zhao Yakui
2008-04-11  3:46             ` David Brownell
2008-04-11 12:44               ` Zhao Yakui
2008-04-11  5:12                 ` David Brownell [this message]
2008-04-11  6:30                 ` Alessandro Zummo

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