Messages in this thread | | | From | David Brownell <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.25-rc7: Ugh. | Date | Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:14:52 -0700 |
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On Friday 28 March 2008, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > 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 :-/
-ENOPATCH :)
Last time this specific issue came up, a related point was that the relevant ALSA documentation in this area needed updating too. ISTR it assumed there was only one kind of RTC, and had a few other issues.
- Dave
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