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

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Message-ID: <103895.1306689477@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date:	Sun, 29 May 2011 13:17:57 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@....de>,
	Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@...com>
Cc:	user-mode-linux-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2 small kernel config issues related to UML + RTC

On Sun, 29 May 2011 11:22:01 +0200, Toralf Förster said:
>   â Symbol: STMMAC_RTC_TIMER [=n]                        
>   â Type  : boolean
>   â Prompt: Real time clock
>   â   Defined at drivers/net/stmmac/Kconfig:50
>   â   Depends on: <choice> && RTC_CLASS
>   â   Location:
>   â     -> Network device support (NETDEVICES [=y])
>   â       -> Ethernet (1000 Mbit) (NETDEV_1000 [=n])
>   â         -> STMicroelectronics 10/100/1000 Ethernet driver (STMMAC_ETH [=n])
>   â           -> STMMAC Timer optimisation (STMMAC_TIMER [=n])
>   â             -> Select Timer device (<choice> [=n])

Ouch. That has to be the strangest place one could *possibly* put an RTC driver. ;)

Giuseppe - is that RTC driver *really* an integral part of the chipset and
won't work without the Ethernet parts, or should the driver code for the RTC
live elsewhere in the tree?


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