From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: WARN_ON(): proc_dir_entry 'rtc' already registered
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 14:50:48 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200803081450.48579.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080219101246.GB2202@elf.ucw.cz>
On Tuesday 19 February 2008, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Mon 2008-02-18 03:08:16, David Brownell wrote:
> > On Monday 18 February 2008, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > > How to fix ... how about: instead of just warning folk
> > > > off such legacy RTC drivers [1] we just wrap them with
> > > > an "if RTC_LIB != n" so this mistake won't be possible.
> > >
> > > Yes, disabling bad configs in Kconfig seems like way to go.
> >
> > Problem is ... that also disables valid configs that
> > get assembled by picking the right module(s) for the
> > target system.
>
> Is there any reason to use the old rtc subsystem?
>
> At least OLD_RTC=y NEW_RTC=y should be disabled... even if OLD_RTC=m
> NEW_RTC=m makes some sense.
The patch I sent earlier today makes the two mutually exclusive.
Note by the way that there is no OLD_RTC analogue ... just a bunch
of individual drivers.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-08 22:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-12 13:26 WARN_ON(): proc_dir_entry 'rtc' already registered Pavel Machek
2008-02-12 18:29 ` David Brownell
2008-02-18 10:54 ` Pavel Machek
2008-02-18 11:08 ` David Brownell
2008-02-19 10:12 ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-08 22:50 ` David Brownell [this message]
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