* David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been trying to make sure the x86 world could realistically switch
> to the RTC framework used by other Linux platforms, hence e.g. the
> util-unix-ng updates, but never assumed there would be no userspace
> changes. After all, userspace was using a mishmash of tools that were
> far from platform-agnostic, and moving away from x86-dependency
> implies such things will change.
>
> However I *do* think that symlinking rtc to /dev/rtc0 should make it
> practical to use most older binaries.
then please provide a kernel config option for the new driver to take
over 10:135 too. There's nothing worse to the adoption of new kernel
features necessiating user-space attention. I've got several images of
old distros that i dont want to reconfigure in any way, and it would be
nice to have a drop-in /dev/rtc replacement for them. Really. This is
how we do it for just about everything else too.
Ingo
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