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Don't ask about "Enhanced Real Time Clock Support" on some archs

PATCH RESEND New Tom Rini 1 participant 1 message Jan 13, 2003

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PATCH RESEND 1/1 Don't ask about "Enhanced Real Time Clock Support" on some archs

The following patch adds an explicit no list of arches who do not want to have the "Enhanced Real Time Clock Support" RTC driver asked. This adds PPC32 (who for a long time had their own 'generic' RTC driver, and then have adopted the genrtc driver) and PARISC (who have always used the genrtc driver). Per request of Peter Chubb, IA64 is on this list as well.

The problem is that on some archs there is no hope of this driver working, and having it compiled into the kernel can cause many different problems. On the other hand, there are some arches for whom that driver does work, on some platforms. So having an explicit yes list would result in some rather ugly statements.

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Tom Rini (TR1265)
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===== drivers/char/Kconfig 1.1 vs edited =====
--- 1.1/drivers/char/Kconfig	Tue Oct 29 18:16:55 2002
+++ edited/drivers/char/Kconfig	Wed Nov 13 07:56:39 2002
@@ -1053,6 +1053,7 @@
 
 config RTC
 	tristate "Enhanced Real Time Clock Support"
+	depends on !PPC32 && !PARISC && !IA64
 	---help---
 	  If you say Y here and create a character special file /dev/rtc with
 	  major number 10 and minor number 135 using mknod ("man mknod"), you