Re: 2.6.25-rc7: Ugh.

Ingo Molnar
2008-03-28T10:20:43Z

* David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> wrote:

> Prevent the most significant RTC configuration problems:
>
> - If the new RTC framework is enabled, don't allow any of the
> legacy drivers to be configured.

yay!!!!

> - When using generic RTC on x86, enable rtc-cmos by default.

Amen.

> It seems too many people are used to enabling a legacy RTC despite the
> Kconfig help/comments; the gentle approach hasn't worked.

Very-Much-Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

it's not just about being gentle: it's that there are thousands of
.config options that are confusing to most users, so our defaults and
rules must make sense. If we think that an approach is superior (which
your new RTC code certainly is), we have to take up the responsibility
of pushing that as a prominent, default choice and excluding the old
code. That ends up benefiting everyone, reduces complexity of the
kernel. You wont see anyone shed tears for the old code.

Ingo