linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] RTC: mark if rtc-cmos drivers were successfully registered.

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Date:	Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:07:47 +0200
From:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
To:	Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@...oscopio.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	rtc-linux@...glegroups.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	dbrownell@...rs.sourceforge.net, bjorn.helgaas@...com,
	Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@...ertech.it>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RTC: mark if rtc-cmos drivers were successfully 
	registered.

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 22:57, Thadeu Lima de Souza
Cascardo<cascardo@...oscopio.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:32:06PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 22:19, Andrew Morton<akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

>> > I believe Kay was planning on making the driver core more robust, so
>> > that crash shouldn't be happening any more.  Kay, can you please confirm
>> > that thsi got fixed?
>>
>> This is supposed to fix it:
>>   http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=5c8563d773c0e9f0ac2a552e84806decd98ce732

> Yes, but instead of an oops, we get a warning when the driver could just
> behave properly. That's the intention of this patch: do not warn the
> user when there's nothing to warn about, as long as the driver behaves
> itself.

Sure, it was not supposed to fix the rtc issue properly, it's just to
make it not oops. :)

Thanks,
Kay
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