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

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Date:	Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:47:50 +0200
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
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 Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 03:56:49PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
> On Friday 2008-03-28 10:49, David Brownell wrote:
>> @@ -303,6 +299,7 @@ comment "Platform RTC drivers"
>> config RTC_DRV_CMOS
>> 	tristate "PC-style 'CMOS'"
>> 	depends on X86 || ALPHA || ARM || M32R || ATARI || PPC || MIPS
>> +	default y if X86
>> 	help
>> 	  Say "yes" here to get direct support for the real time clock
>> 	  found in every PC or ACPI-based system, and some other boards.
>
> I do not see why it should default to y, given that udev loads my m
> perfectly fine.

Then there's no problem with having it default to "y".

The usual case is to have a driver disabled by default, and when it's 
that common that we do not want it disabled by default we can as well 
immediately let it default to "y".

The user still has all three choices.

cu
Adrian

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