Re: [PATCH] RTC: mark if rtc-cmos drivers were successfully registered.

[Kay Sievers]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 22:57, Thadeu Lima de Souza
Cascardo<cascardo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:32:06PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 22:19, Andrew Morton<akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> > I believe Kay was planning on making the driver core more robust, so
>> > that crash shouldn't be happening any more. ÂKay, can you please confirm
>> > that thsi got fixed?
>>
>> This is supposed to fix it:
>> Â http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=5c8563d773c0e9f0ac2a552e84806decd98ce732

> Yes, but instead of an oops, we get a warning when the driver could just
> behave properly. That's the intention of this patch: do not warn the
> user when there's nothing to warn about, as long as the driver behaves
> itself.

Sure, it was not supposed to fix the rtc issue properly, it's just to
make it not oops. :)

Thanks,
Kay
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