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Message-ID: <20080102201451.GC3985@elte.hu>
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 21:14:51 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To: David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>
Cc: kay.sievers@...y.org, a.zummo@...ertech.it,
stern@...land.harvard.edu, rjw@...k.pl, pavel@...e.cz,
linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, lenb@...nel.org, gregkh@...e.de,
akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] PM: Do not destroy/create devices while suspended
(rev. 2)
* David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net> wrote:
> I've been trying to make sure the x86 world could realistically switch
> to the RTC framework used by other Linux platforms, hence e.g. the
> util-unix-ng updates, but never assumed there would be no userspace
> changes. After all, userspace was using a mishmash of tools that were
> far from platform-agnostic, and moving away from x86-dependency
> implies such things will change.
>
> However I *do* think that symlinking rtc to /dev/rtc0 should make it
> practical to use most older binaries.
then please provide a kernel config option for the new driver to take
over 10:135 too. There's nothing worse to the adoption of new kernel
features necessiating user-space attention. I've got several images of
old distros that i dont want to reconfigure in any way, and it would be
nice to have a drop-in /dev/rtc replacement for them. Really. This is
how we do it for just about everything else too.
Ingo
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