From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751276AbXCFUue (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Mar 2007 15:50:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751325AbXCFUud (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Mar 2007 15:50:33 -0500 Received: from mx0.towertech.it ([213.215.222.73]:56428 "HELO mx0.towertech.it" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751276AbXCFUuc (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Mar 2007 15:50:32 -0500 Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 21:50:23 +0100 From: Alessandro Zummo To: rtc-linux@googlegroups.com Cc: david-b@pacbell.net, rol@as2917.net, "'Adrian Bunk'" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, a.zummo@towertech.it Subject: Re: [rtc-linux] Re: 2.6.21-rc2 : Oops in rtc_cmos... Message-ID: <20070306215023.1ec0a4d7@inspiron> In-Reply-To: <200703061132.29331.david-b@pacbell.net> References: <01b901c75fc1$2295d4c0$4b00a8c0@donald> <200703061132.29331.david-b@pacbell.net> Organization: Tower Technologies X-Mailer: Sylpheed Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 11:32:28 -0800 David Brownell wrote: > > on then... My dmesg says, related to rtc : > > > > ... > > rtc_cmos 00:03: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0 > > I think the RTC core shouldn't emit this message; I'll send > a patch. It's just confusing on error paths; and on success > paths it's less informative than a message from the driver > itself could be. I would like a way to have a common "welcome" message among all the drivers. Please take this into account if you want to send a patch ;) > > What does this all mean ? I thought an RTC Cmos was always there on a > > standard PC motherboard... (that's why I had activated the option in the > > first time). > > You enabled CONFIG_RTC (under char drivers, "Enhanced Real Time Clock Support") > so that driver has claimed the CMOS RTC instead of "rtc-cmos.c". Disable it. > Then you'll be able to use this driver with no little surprises. maybe we should consider this in the Kconfig. -- Best regards, Alessandro Zummo, Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy http://www.towertech.it