Re: [PATCH] rtc-cmos: Fix boot log message

[Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>]

On Tuesday 04 November 2008, David Brownell wrote:
> On Monday 03 November 2008, Frans Pop wrote:
> > Alternative would be to change the following line at 808:
> >                         is_hpet_enabled() ? ", hpet irqs" : "");
> > to:
> >                         is_hpet_enabled() ? "hpet" : "<sensible
> > value>");
>
> The intent was "hpet irqs" vs "native IRQs" (typical PC options)
> vs "no irqs" (e.g. on SPARCs).
>
> I think fixes got trashed when the patch queue got corrupted
> by some queue-jumping ... see the patch in
>
>   http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11153
>
> which was broken by a474aaedac99ba86e28ef6c912a7647c482db6dd,
> and has appropriately sane messaging.

AFAICT that patch is still pending, which means that the patch I proposed 
should be good and fix the "regression".

When your original patch is then updated against git head and resubmitted, 
things should still end up as you intended.

Cheers,
FJP