On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 06:13:25PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > You call it "breakage" because you have a relatively dogmatic view > regarding the selection of user visible symbols. > Other people care more about the usability of the kernel config system, > and therefore a select of one of the I2C* options is quite common from > both outside and inside the i2c subsystem. > > There are two possbile situations: > - these RTC drivers are nice add-ons that could be shown if all > required I2C* options are already enabled > - these RTC drivers are pretty essential and should really be enabled > on the platforms they are for > > Which of these two cases describes the situation of these RTC drivers?
Since RTCs aren't _actually_ essential for Linux kernel operation, the former clearly applies. Other people may have differing opinions, but having worked with a large number of SoC platforms where the RTC is reset when the SoC is reset, or even platforms where there is no RTC at all, it brings a different perspective to this that people who have only ever experienced systems where the RTC is always true do not have. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/ 2.6 Serial core - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
