Re: Two issues with 2.4.18pre3 on PPC

Eric S. Raymond (esr@thyrsus.com)
Wed, 16 Jan 2002 12:10:58 -0500

Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>:
> Eric, do you think you could modify the CONFIG_RTC help entry to mention
> that on PPC you should use the CONFIG_PPC_RTC option and not CONFIG_RTC,
> if in doubt? That's probably the best fix for 2.4.x

Done.

However, the *right* fix is

derive PPC_RTC from RTC & ((S390==n and APUS==n) or (APUS!=n and CONFIG_4xx))

eliminating PPC_RTC as a separate question entirely and hiding a platform
detail. 

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