Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:03:12 +0100 (CET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.25-rc7: Ugh. |
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On Friday 2008-03-28 11:20, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > it's not just about being gentle: it's that there are thousands of > .config options that are confusing to most users, so our defaults and > rules must make sense. If we think that an approach is superior (which > your new RTC code certainly is), we have to take up the responsibility > of pushing that as a prominent, default choice and excluding the old > code. That ends up benefiting everyone, reduces complexity of the > kernel. You wont see anyone shed tears for the old code.
Users with audio-related usage patterns do, as SND_RTCTIMER still depends on old rtc :-/
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