Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 27 Feb 2005 01:28:14 +0100 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] deprecate EXPORT_SYMBOL(do_settimeofday) |
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On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 05:20:18PM +0000, Russell King wrote: > On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 06:13:25PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > You call it "breakage" because you have a relatively dogmatic view > > regarding the selection of user visible symbols. > > Other people care more about the usability of the kernel config system, > > and therefore a select of one of the I2C* options is quite common from > > both outside and inside the i2c subsystem. > > > > There are two possbile situations: > > - these RTC drivers are nice add-ons that could be shown if all > > required I2C* options are already enabled > > - these RTC drivers are pretty essential and should really be enabled > > on the platforms they are for > > > > Which of these two cases describes the situation of these RTC drivers? > > Since RTCs aren't _actually_ essential for Linux kernel operation, > the former clearly applies. > > Other people may have differing opinions, but having worked with a > large number of SoC platforms where the RTC is reset when the SoC > is reset, or even platforms where there is no RTC at all, it brings > a different perspective to this that people who have only ever > experienced systems where the RTC is always true do not have.
No problem with this.
I'm hereby withdrawing my patch.
cu Adrian
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