Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 May 2008 23:05:02 +0400 | From | Stas Sergeev <> | Subject | Re: [patch] provide rtc_cmos platform device |
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Hello.
David, please CC me the replies.
David Brownell wrote: > Well, "regression" is the wrong phrase. You've switched > drivers (from the legacy RTC to the new one), so this is > not the thing which worked for you before. I am not sure how could that happen. I am always just taking an old kernel config and never change the options that are not supposed to be changed. Was the old RTC driver removed by any chance?
>> This may also help running the >> PNP-enabled kernel on an older PCs. > As in, pre-PNP. That's pretty darn old! But... I think they should still be supported, unless it is too difficult.
> (1) On an ARM build (with no PNP configured): OK, but unfortunately I can't help with that. I won't touch any non-x86 arch code, so I'll simply go for the #ifdef here, or someone else should make the patch instead. :)
> You shouldn't define those symbols; the right values are already > defined in <asm/mc146818rtc.h>. RTC_PORT(0) and RTC_PORT(1) are > the symbolss to use; RTC_IRQ is already defined. All this stuff > is used in the <asm-generic/rtc.h> code ... OK, thanks. I'll update the patch, in todo for the week-end.
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