We do have such machines, which is why this change has been reverted twice already. I believe we should stick to the priority scheme I proposed a few weeks ago.
Matthew Garrett <matthew.garr...@nebula.com> wrote: >On Sat, 2012-12-29 at 00:26 +0800, Lee, Chun-Yi wrote: >> UEFI time services, GetTime(), SetTime(), GetWakeupTime(), >SetWakeupTime() are also >> supported by other non-IA64 architecutre with UEFI BIOS, e.g. x86. >> >> This patch changed RTC_DRV_EFI configuration to depend on EFI but not >just IA64. It >> checks efi_enabled flag and efi-rtc driver should enabled. > >In theory, certainly - but do we still have machines that explode if >the >get_time call is made? We may also want to think about disabling the >legacy access to the RTC if the EFI calls are present. -- Sent from my mobile phone. Please excuse brevity and lack of formatting. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
