Re: 2.6.25-rc7: Ugh.

Pavel Machek
2008-03-28T11:01:05Z

On Fri 2008-03-28 11:20:10, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * 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>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>

> 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.

...as I got bitten by this, too.

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