On Friday 11 April 2008, Zhao Yakui wrote: > > There is another question about the driver rtc and rtc-cmos. > rtc driver is in drivers/char/ and rtc-cmos is in drivers/rtc/ A patch that's pending for 2.6.26 (in MM) makes sure that only one of those can ever be configured. > On some laptops the two drivers will share the same memory/irq resource, > which will cause that rtc-cmos driver can't work well after the rtc > driver is already loaded.(Of course RTC sys I/F isn't created in rtc > driver.) That's a configuration error. If the new RTC framework is in use, legacy drivers should not be used. - Dave -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
