linux-kernel - Re: 2 small kernel config issues related to UML + RTC

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Date:	Sun, 29 May 2011 11:54:25 +0200
From:	richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>
To:	Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@....de>
Cc:	user-mode-linux-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2 small kernel config issues related to UML + RTC

2011/5/29 Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@....de>:
> Hello,
>
> with the current git kernel I run
> $>make ARCH=um menuconfig
>
> and searched for the string "RTC" b/c during boot of my UML image I realized nowadays the message:
>
> "Kernel not built with RTC support, ALARM timers will not wake from suspend"
>
> Although the menuconfig gives me the answer :
>
>  │ Symbol: STMMAC_RTC_TIMER [=n]                                                                                   │
>  │ Type  : boolean                                                                                                 │
>  │ Prompt: Real time clock                                                                                         │
>  │   Defined at drivers/net/stmmac/Kconfig:50                                                                      │
>  │   Depends on: <choice> && RTC_CLASS                                                                             │
>  │   Location:                                                                                                     │
>  │     -> Network device support (NETDEVICES [=y])                                                                 │
>  │       -> Ethernet (1000 Mbit) (NETDEV_1000 [=n])                                                                │
>  │         -> STMicroelectronics 10/100/1000 Ethernet driver (STMMAC_ETH [=n])                                     │
>  │           -> STMMAC Timer optimisation (STMMAC_TIMER [=n])                                                      │
>  │             -> Select Timer device (<choice> [=n])                                                              │
>
>
> I cannot found the menu item.
>
> To sum it up IMO the kernel mesage doesn't makes sense for UML
> and furthermore searching for "RTC" shouldn't give non-existent menu items, isn't it ?

I saw this message too.
A fix is on the way...

-- 
Thanks,
//richard