From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alessandro Zummo Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 1/3] Allow to override the RTC alarm time Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:30:25 +0200 Message-ID: <20080411083025.2ebc831f@i1501.lan.towertech.it> References: <1207722851.5997.16.camel@yakui_zhao.sh.intel.com> <200804090313.34805.david-b@pacbell.net> <1207911866.9448.34.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=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mx0.towertech.it ([213.215.222.73]:51593 "HELO mx0.towertech.it" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1758053AbYDKGa2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Apr 2008 02:30:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1207917861.9448.42.camel@yakui_zhao.sh.intel.com> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Zhao Yakui Cc: David Brownell , "Zhang, Rui" , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, lenb@kernel.org On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:44:21 +0800 Zhao Yakui wrote: > How about the following issue? > There is another question about the driver rtc and rtc-cmos. > rtc driver is in drivers/char/ and rtc-cmos is in drivers/rtc/ > 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.) > How to solve this issue? The driver in drivers/char/ should not be loaded at all. the most recent Kconfig will check and avoid letting you select both of them. -- Best regards, Alessandro Zummo, Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy http://www.towertech.it