Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Jun 2006 00:48:08 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: CONFIG_PM_TRACE corrupts RTC |
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On Mon 2006-06-26 09:30:49, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > Oh, I thought it found some spare space in there somehow. > > I really tried. The fact is, the RTC chips have at least 114 bytes of > NVRAM available in them, and most have more. Sadly, while from a hw > standpoint it's non-volatile, the firmware I was testing with cleared it > all (including the extended banks etc). > > > Making it `default y' was a bit unfriendly. How's about `default n' and > > `depends on EMBEDDED'? > > We can certainly make it 'default n', and perhaps hide it behind > EXPERIMENTAL (it's not really, but hey..). Not EMBEDDED, though, this is > literally meant to help random people who have a dead machine on suspend > be able to just turn this on, test suspend, and then when suspend causes a > dead machine, just turn off power and reboot immediately again, and it > will tell you which device was the last one to go through the resume > cycle.
This should probably be hidden in kernel debugging submenu... or perhaps even out of the config system. It is only useful if you hack the .c code, anyway, no? Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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