linux-kernel - Re: RTC revert request

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Date:	Tue, 3 Jan 2012 19:49:50 -0800
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>,
	Rabin Vincent <rabin.vincent@...ricsson.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: Re: RTC revert request

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 7:36 PM, john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com> wrote:
>
> Thus, would you please revert:
>
> 93b2ec0128c431148b216b8f7337c1a52131ef03
> rtc: Expire alarms after the time is set.
>
> and
>
> c0afabd3d553c521e003779c127143ffde55a16f
> rtc: Disable the alarm in the hardware

Ok, I picked up on the second revert already because of being cc'd on
the discussion about the stable tree.

Can you point me at the background for that first one, or write a
changelog for the revert for me? I don't want to have reverts without
background and explanation of them..

                     Linus
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