Re: [PATCH 2/2] efirtc: add efi_enabled check in efi_rtc_init

[Geliang Tang]

On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 04:37:51PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 02 November 2015 22:49:01 Geliang Tang wrote:
> > diff --git a/drivers/char/efirtc.c b/drivers/char/efirtc.c
> > index 5323d8c..80058bd 100644
> > --- a/drivers/char/efirtc.c
> > +++ b/drivers/char/efirtc.c
> > @@ -378,6 +378,9 @@ efi_rtc_init(void)
> >         int ret;
> >         struct proc_dir_entry *dir;
> >  
> > +       if (!efi_enabled(EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES))
> > +               return 0;
> > 
> 
> Are there any Itanium machines that don't enable runtime services?
> This seems a little redundant otherwise.
> 
> Are you trying to run the ancient driver on non-Itanium systems?

Yes. I did run this driver on a EFI-based X86_64 machine.

Geliang Tang

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