Re: 2 small kernel config issues related to UML + RTC

From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Sun May 29 2011 - 13:18:40 EST


On Sun, 29 May 2011 11:22:01 +0200, Toralf Förster said:
> â?? Symbol: STMMAC_RTC_TIMER [=n]
> â?? Type : boolean
> â?? Prompt: Real time clock
> â?? Defined at drivers/net/stmmac/Kconfig:50
> â?? Depends on: <choice> && RTC_CLASS
> â?? Location:
> â?? -> Network device support (NETDEVICES [=y])
> â?? -> Ethernet (1000 Mbit) (NETDEV_1000 [=n])
> â?? -> STMicroelectronics 10/100/1000 Ethernet driver (STMMAC_ETH [=n])
> â?? -> STMMAC Timer optimisation (STMMAC_TIMER [=n])
> â?? -> Select Timer device (<choice> [=n])

Ouch. That has to be the strangest place one could *possibly* put an RTC driver. ;)

Giuseppe - is that RTC driver *really* an integral part of the chipset and
won't work without the Ethernet parts, or should the driver code for the RTC
live elsewhere in the tree?

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