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

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Mon Apr 21 2014 - 13:58:59 EST


[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.


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~Randy
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