The genrtc driver serves no purpose on Alpha because it drives the same hardware as the original rtc.c driver, and the newer rtc-generic.c or rtc-cmos.c drivers on architectures that use the asm-generic/rtc.h header.
The defconfig uses CONFIG_RTC=y, so this driver is not used by default. At one point it was used to abstract a quirk for the "Marvel" platform, but it does not do this any more after the code was moved into yet another driver in arch/alpha/kernel/rtc.c. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> --- drivers/char/Kconfig | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/Kconfig b/drivers/char/Kconfig index 9bdb629fbaae..697510325b1d 100644 --- a/drivers/char/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/char/Kconfig @@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ config JS_RTC config GEN_RTC tristate "Generic /dev/rtc emulation" depends on RTC!=y - depends on ALPHA || M68K || MN10300 || PARISC || PPC + depends on M68K || MN10300 || PARISC || PPC ---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 -- 2.7.0 _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev