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From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Lukas Geyer <geyer@ml.kva.se>
Subject: Re: Two issues with 2.4.18pre3 on PPC
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 12:10:58 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020116121058.B5940@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201161417540.6868-100000@cauchy.ml.kva.se> <20020116163737.29030@mailhost.mipsys.com> <20020116170554.GA771@cpe-24-221-152-185.az.sprintbbd.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020116170554.GA771@cpe-24-221-152-185.az.sprintbbd.net>; from trini@kernel.crashing.org on Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 10:05:54AM -0700

Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>:
> Eric, do you think you could modify the CONFIG_RTC help entry to mention
> that on PPC you should use the CONFIG_PPC_RTC option and not CONFIG_RTC,
> if in doubt?  That's probably the best fix for 2.4.x

Done.

However, the *right* fix is

derive PPC_RTC from RTC & ((S390==n and APUS==n) or (APUS!=n and CONFIG_4xx))

eliminating PPC_RTC as a separate question entirely and hiding a platform 
detail.  
-- 
		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

To make inexpensive guns impossible to get is to say that you're
putting a money test on getting a gun.  It's racism in its worst form.
        -- Roy Innis, president of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), 1988

  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-16 17:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-16 13:47 Two issues with 2.4.18pre3 on PPC Lukas Geyer
2002-01-16 15:24 ` Ed Sweetman
2002-01-16 18:56   ` Lukas Geyer
2002-01-16 16:37 ` benh
2002-01-16 16:55   ` Automatic reboot on PPC (was: Re: Two issues with 2.4.18pre3 on PPC) Thomas Capricelli
2002-01-16 17:55     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-01-16 17:05   ` Two issues with 2.4.18pre3 on PPC Tom Rini
2002-01-16 17:10     ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2002-01-16 17:31       ` Tom Rini
2002-01-16 17:25         ` Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-16 17:54           ` Tom Rini
2002-01-17  0:08       ` Horst von Brand

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