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Message-Id: <20081118222633.2cf8e231.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:26:33 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Bryan Wu <cooloney@...nel.org>
Cc:	a.zummo@...ertech.it, rtc-linux@...glegroups.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] genrtc: disable genrtc on Blackfin systems

On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:00:15 +0800 Bryan Wu <cooloney@...nel.org> wrote:

> From: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@...il.com>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@...nel.org>

What is the reason for this change?

> diff --git a/drivers/char/Kconfig b/drivers/char/Kconfig
> index 43d6ba8..a92a60a 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/char/Kconfig
> @@ -814,7 +814,7 @@ config JS_RTC
>  
>  config GEN_RTC
>  	tristate "Generic /dev/rtc emulation"
> -	depends on RTC!=y && !IA64 && !ARM && !M32R && !MIPS && !SPARC && !FRV && !S390 && !SUPERH && !AVR32
> +	depends on RTC!=y && !IA64 && !ARM && !M32R && !MIPS && !SPARC && !FRV && !S390 && !SUPERH && !AVR32 && !BLACKFIN

Gawd that's stupid.  It'd be much better to add a new
CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_GENRTC in arch/*/Kconfig.

Oh well.  I suppose we can run with this patch for now.  Once we know
what it's for.

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