linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.25-rc7: Ugh.

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Date:	Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:03:12 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
cc:	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>, Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, jkosina@...e.cz,
	gregkh@...e.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, pavel@...e.cz,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, rtc-linux@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc7: Ugh.


On Friday 2008-03-28 11:20, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> it's not just about being gentle: it's that there are thousands of
> .config options that are confusing to most users, so our defaults and
> rules must make sense. If we think that an approach is superior (which
> your new RTC code certainly is), we have to take up the responsibility
> of pushing that as a prominent, default choice and excluding the old
> code. That ends up benefiting everyone, reduces complexity of the
> kernel. You wont see anyone shed tears for the old code.

Users with audio-related usage patterns do, as SND_RTCTIMER
still depends on old rtc :-/
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