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SubjectRe: 2.6.25-rc7: Ugh.

On Friday 2008-03-28 11:20, Ingo Molnar wrote:
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> 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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