From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
To: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
rtc-linux@googlegroups.com, a.zummo@towertech.it
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: X86: Impossible select Enhanced Real Time Clock Support (legacy PC RTC driver)
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 10:58:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53555C56.1040900@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1397415946.1555.16.camel@vger.seibold.net>
[adding more patch committers]
On 04/13/2014 12:05 PM, Stefani Seibold wrote:
> Since some kernel version it is impossible to select the Enhanced Real
> Time Clock Support (legacy PC RTC driver) because RTC_LIB is set by
> default in arch/x86/Kconfig, but the rule for selecting CONFIG_RTC is
> RTC_LIB=n. So the code of driver/char/rtc is still useless.
>
> This breaks the API since there is no more misc device /dev/rtc
> available without a udev rule or a link to /dev/rtc0.
--
~Randy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-21 17:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-13 19:05 X86: Impossible select Enhanced Real Time Clock Support (legacy PC RTC driver) Stefani Seibold
2014-04-21 17:58 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2014-04-28 18:16 ` John Stultz
2014-04-28 18:20 ` Alessandro Zummo
2014-05-02 20:03 ` Stefani Seibold
2014-05-05 23:34 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2014-05-06 9:56 ` [rtc-linux] " Alessandro Zummo
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