Re: Two issues with 2.4.18pre3 on PPC

Eric S. Raymond (esr@thyrsus.com)
Wed, 16 Jan 2002 12:25:25 -0500


Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>:
> Unless the user wants to use drivers/char/rtc.c because they're on a
> chrp or prep box.

OK, so the derivation right side should change a little (I'll take a patch).

The actual point is one of design philosophy. Instead of presenting the
ser with unnecessarily platform-specific questions, we should be asking
platform-independent (wherever this is possible) questions about the
*capabilities* he/she wants and mixing that wuith information about the
platform.

I'll go further than that. PP_RTC should probably never have existed
as a user-visible symbol and question in the first place, as it
duplicates what PPC is asking. The derivation should actually take
place somewhere in the C code of the PPC port tree.

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