* David Brownell <david-b@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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 _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
