state of GEN_RTC vs rtc subsystem

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Feb 21 03:11:23 EST 2008


Is the functionality provided by drivers/char/gen_rtc.c completely  
handled by the rtc subsystem in drivers/rtc?

I ask for two reasons:
1. should we make it mutually exclusive in Kconfig
2. I've enabled both and get (we'll my defconfig did):

proc_dir_entry 'rtc' already registered
Call Trace:
[df82bd70] [c0006b8c] show_stack+0x3c/0x1b0 (unreliable)
[df82bda0] [c00cda48] proc_register+0xf8/0x1a0
[df82bdd0] [c00cdc44] create_proc_entry+0x64/0xf0
[df82bdf0] [c024a484] rtc_proc_add_device+0x54/0x90
[df82be00] [c0249048] rtc_device_register+0x1d8/0x220
[df82be40] [c046c0bc] cmos_platform_probe+0x13c/0x3c0
[df82be70] [c01cd524] platform_drv_probe+0x24/0x40
[df82be80] [c01cb15c] driver_probe_device+0xbc/0x200
[df82bea0] [c01cb4ac] __driver_attach+0xcc/0x100
[df82bec0] [c01ca0dc] bus_for_each_dev+0x5c/0xa0
[df82bef0] [c01caf44] driver_attach+0x24/0x40
[df82bf00] [c01cad70] bus_add_driver+0x1f0/0x270
[df82bf20] [c01cb778] driver_register+0x48/0x140
[df82bf40] [c01cd948] platform_driver_register+0x98/0xb0
[df82bf50] [c01cd97c] platform_driver_probe+0x1c/0x90
[df82bf60] [c046bf70] cmos_init+0x20/0x30
[df82bf70] [c0450218] kernel_init+0xa8/0x2b0
[df82bff0] [c000e638] kernel_thread+0x44/0x60
rtc_cmos rtc_cmos: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0

- k



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