Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:51:07 +0100 | From | Tilman Schmidt <> | Subject | Kconfig RTC selection (was: 2.6.25-rc7: Ugh.) |
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On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:49:41 -0700, David Brownell wrote: > It seems too many people are used to enabling a legacy RTC despite > the Kconfig help/comments; the gentle approach hasn't worked.
Gentleness is not the point. The Kconfig help/comments where just not clear at all.
FWIW, it's still confusing to have an option "Enhanced Real Time Clock Support" under "Character Devices", then later an option "Real Time Clock" one level higher, none of the two in any way acknowledging the existence of the other one, and only after naively selecting both, you are told that there is some sort of conflict. Couldn't this be made more explicit, such as: - mentioning in both options' help text that the other one shouldn't be selected at the same time (if that's true) - noting explicitly which of the two RTC options is the "legacy" one (is it RTC_CLASS?) - enhancing the conflict message, which reads, in git-current: *** Conflicting RTC option has been selected, check GEN_RTC *** RTC interfaces *** Perhaps it's only me, but I do not know what to make of this.
HTH T.
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