Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:06:43 +0200 | | From | Adrian Bunk <> | | Subject | Re: Kconfig RTC selection (was: 2.6.25-rc7: Ugh.) |
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On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 01:04:38PM -0700, David Brownell wrote: > [ CC's trimmed a bit ] > > On Friday 28 March 2008, Mark Lord wrote: > > > +# These legacy RTC drivers just cause too many conflicts with the generic > > > +# RTC framework ... let's not even try to coexist any more. > > ... > > > > Thanks, David. Could you perhaps also update the option descriptions > > to clearly indicate which set of RTCs are the new ones, and which are > > the old ones that are going away someday? > > Hmm, I thought that would be clear from context. > "These" (drivers/char) legacy RTC drivers (old), > vs generic RTC framework (toplevel driver Kconfig). > > Admittedly the *previous* Kconfig was troublesome, > at the UI level (vs. those comments outside the GUI). > > > A more general issue seems to be what to do with > those legacy RTC drivers. Few of them seem to > have maintainers. I don't want to own them, and > I doubt Alessandro does either. If their Kconfig > is going to change, I'd rather just see them all > flagged as deprecated ... with plans to delete them. > > The RTCs in question being: > > "RTC" ... replaced by new "rtc-cmos" > --> ready to deprecate now ?
The only reason against killing it immediately seems to be SND_RTCTIMER.
> "JS_RTC" ... a SPARC32 thing > --> bug?? no "js-rtc.c" in the tree! patch sent
Where's the bug? js-rtc is built from rtc.c
>... > "DS1302" ... M32R-specific, "rtc-ds1302" should replace it > --> ready to deprecate now? >...
Kconfig currently offers rtc-ds1302 only for an sh platform...
> - Dave
cu Adrian
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