From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756926AbYFHXFs (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jun 2008 19:05:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755644AbYFHXFh (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jun 2008 19:05:37 -0400 Received: from smtp120.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com ([69.147.64.93]:40610 "HELO smtp120.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1755632AbYFHXFg (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jun 2008 19:05:36 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=pacbell.net; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:Cc:References:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Disposition:Message-Id; b=KD0ZnqSuqb+mGlYdVxCsolb5s+DINHwWIM1ZfqR/8kl/EXO3Zu93YwH4TzKfuzMpaohd/4070AOD4k+Wkct43VT/ZtRbH55j8r1TqN3mQuUqczNSuxhZah6ilz1QEfQKCUGHpuZxTakGoB2ls1PWnOkj9+C8EV+YvVwqPdMDpqM= ; X-YMail-OSG: u6uprLgVM1kUt5nTuRH6L1Thk_.FMpmkYSG7l7Vw740nZsU49ywrtG3DvghWnR6LLD3x6hEqBBLzSxljd.OBTRkIRou21VTXqtPfolfsa4FiugghpRLOsqyONvrn_GldNTw- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 From: David Brownell To: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.26-rc5] make HPET_RTC_IRQ track HPET_EMULATE_RTC Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 16:05:34 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: lkml , Thomas Gleixner References: <200806052241.44713.david-b@pacbell.net> <20080608140011.aa3762cd.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20080608140011.aa3762cd.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200806081605.35042.david-b@pacbell.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sunday 08 June 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 22:41:44 -0700 David Brownell wrote: > > > More Kconfig tweaks related to the legacy PC RTC code: > > > > - Describe the legacy PC RTC driver as such ... it's never quite > > been clear that this driver is for PC RTCs, and now it's fair > > to call this the "legacy" driver. > > > > - Force it to understand about HPET stealing its IRQs ... kernel > > code does this always when HPET is in use, there should be no > > option for users to goof up the config. > > > > This seems to fix kernel bugzilla #10729. > > hm. "seems" is a bit soft. Fixes it for one reporter. Another reporter has yet to respond. > Do you think this should be in 2.6.26? Yes, unless someone more involved in the HPET stuff has a better solution. (Or that legacy RTC gets a maintainer, who disagrees...) This does seem to suggest that we have an extra Kconfig variable here, by the way. - dave