Subject: Re: Would setting the CONFIG_RTC option break the powerpc kernel on your machine ?

From: Sven Luther <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 12:53:22 +0100

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 10:47:37PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> >
> > So, would it be meaningfull to change all the others to NODEV too ?
>
> You are beeing anal or what ? :)
>
> Who cares about that legacy driver in 2.4 anyway :)
>
> If you really want, I suppose the failure on request_region could
> return -EBUSY, not sure about the best error to return from failures
> on request_irq...
>
> Nobody really cares about those codes though. At least not in this driver.

Ok, i will return whatever you want, and we don't really care about the
code, provided it boots ok, doesn't hang the powermacs at hwclock
invocation time, and clock works for them.

Still in search for a volunteer.

Friendly,

Sven Luther

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