On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 11:32:28 -0800 David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > on then... My dmesg says, related to rtc : > > > > ... > > rtc_cmos 00:03: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0 > > I think the RTC core shouldn't emit this message; I'll send > a patch. It's just confusing on error paths; and on success > paths it's less informative than a message from the driver > itself could be. I would like a way to have a common "welcome" message among all the drivers. Please take this into account if you want to send a patch ;) > > What does this all mean ? I thought an RTC Cmos was always there on a > > standard PC motherboard... (that's why I had activated the option in the > > first time). > > You enabled CONFIG_RTC (under char drivers, "Enhanced Real Time Clock > Support") > so that driver has claimed the CMOS RTC instead of "rtc-cmos.c". Disable it. > Then you'll be able to use this driver with no little surprises. maybe we should consider this in the Kconfig. -- Best regards, Alessandro Zummo, Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy http://www.towertech.it - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
