From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757072AbZA2TlU (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:41:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754790AbZA2TlK (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:41:10 -0500 Received: from mx0.towertech.it ([213.215.222.73]:33017 "HELO mx0.towertech.it" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753190AbZA2TlJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:41:09 -0500 Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:41:04 +0100 From: Alessandro Zummo To: rtc-linux@googlegroups.com Cc: eswierk@aristanetworks.com, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [rtc-linux] Re: [PATCH] x86: i2c rtc instead of cmos rtc Message-ID: <20090129204104.60bf46a2@i1501.lan.towertech.it> In-Reply-To: <9ae48b020901291121n319be519o473db5fdc031ea8f@mail.gmail.com> References: <1233018263.14510.112.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20090127122156.784924f4@i1501.lan.towertech.it> <9ae48b020901291121n319be519o473db5fdc031ea8f@mail.gmail.com> Organization: Tower Technologies X-Mailer: Sylpheed X-This-Is-A-Real-Message: Yes Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:21:58 -0800 Ed Swierk wrote: > In our embedded application it's more convenient to build all the > drivers needed to support various hardware configurations into the > kernel, and avoid messing with modules. This works fine for devices > that can be detected dynamically, but RTC chips are among the few that > need to be configured statically; my change just relaxes the current > assumption that all x86 boards have a usable CMOS RTC. While I can't judge on what's convenient to you, I do not feel fine in having a kernel option to disable the rtc and another to load a specific i2c one. However, if there's a strong consensus from other people on the matter, I will close an eye and pretend I haven't seen the patch slipping thru :) -- Best regards, Alessandro Zummo, Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy http://www.towertech.it