Re: X86: Impossible select Enhanced Real Time Clock Support (legacy PC RTC driver)

[Alessandro Zummo]

On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 11:16:37 -0700
John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >> This breaks the API since there is no more misc device /dev/rtc
> >> available without a udev rule or a link to /dev/rtc0.  
> 
> So yea.. I feel like that /dev/rtcN renaming (and API) break (which
> was a huge and annoying pain) was back in the 2.6.18-ish era?

 It's very old and linking/renaming is around since then.

> But it sounds like the driver/char/rtc bit is dead code, and needs a
> cleanup? Or is there some use of that code that you need that the
> generic RTC layer doesn't have?

 as far as I know, no recent distribution is using the old code
 anymore and the new (well, not so new anymore) framework provides the same functionality.
 

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 Best regards,

 Alessandro Zummo,
  Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy

  http://www.towertech.it

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