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Message-ID: <53555C56.1040900@infradead.org>
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 10:58:46 -0700
From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To: Stefani Seibold <stefani@...bold.net>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, rtc-linux@...glegroups.com,
a.zummo@...ertech.it
CC: John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: X86: Impossible select Enhanced Real Time Clock Support (legacy
PC RTC driver)
[adding more patch committers]
On 04/13/2014 12:05 PM, Stefani Seibold wrote:
> Since some kernel version it is impossible to select the Enhanced Real
> Time Clock Support (legacy PC RTC driver) because RTC_LIB is set by
> default in arch/x86/Kconfig, but the rule for selecting CONFIG_RTC is
> RTC_LIB=n. So the code of driver/char/rtc is still useless.
>
> This breaks the API since there is no more misc device /dev/rtc
> available without a udev rule or a link to /dev/rtc0.
--
~Randy
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