Re: state of GEN_RTC vs rtc subsystem

From: Richard Zidlicky
Date: Thu Feb 21 2008 - 04:24:50 EST


On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:11:23AM -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:
> Is the functionality provided by drivers/char/gen_rtc.c completely handled
> by the rtc subsystem in drivers/rtc?

they were not designed work parallel at the same. Not sure if there is
ever a valid reason to have both comiled into one kernel image - might be
for some architectures - but when the situation is not handled correctly
the easiest fix is to make them mutually exclusive.

Richard
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