Would setting the CONFIG_RTC option break the powerpc kernel on your machine ?

Sven Luther sven.luther at wanadoo.fr
Wed Jan 7 20:53:58 EST 2004


On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 07:30:06PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> >  1) could a #ifdef __powerpc__ not be enough ?
>
> No. _machine is only defined for the "multiarch" config (PREP/CHRP/PMAC)

Ok. I suppose it doesn't make sense also to include the #ifdef
CONFIG_ALL_PPC in a #ifdef __powerpc__ ?

> >  2) The other failures in rtc_init return -EIO, not -ENODEV.
>
> Well, in this case, -ENODEV makes more sense, though nothing really
> cares except the kind of error message the user will get when using
> it as a module.

I think i will keep it as the others for the debian package.

Friendly,

Sven Luther

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