From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Brownell Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 1/3] Allow to override the RTC alarm time Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:12:15 -0700 Message-ID: <200804102212.16151.david-b@pacbell.net> References: <1207722851.5997.16.camel@yakui_zhao.sh.intel.com> <200804102046.48082.david-b@pacbell.net> <1207917861.9448.42.camel@yakui_zhao.sh.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from smtp117.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com ([69.147.64.90]:38495 "HELO smtp117.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752132AbYDKFMS (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:12:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1207917861.9448.42.camel@yakui_zhao.sh.intel.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Zhao Yakui Cc: "Zhang, Rui" , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, lenb@kernel.org, Alessandro Zummo On Friday 11 April 2008, Zhao Yakui wrote: >=20 > =A0 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 resour= ce, > 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html