The patch titled Subject: rtc-ia64-allow-other-architectures-to-use-efi-rtc-v2 has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is rtc-ia64-allow-other-architectures-to-use-efi-rtc-v2.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/rtc-ia64-allow-other-architectures-to-use-efi-rtc-v2.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/rtc-ia64-allow-other-architectures-to-use-efi-rtc-v2.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Mark Salter <msalter@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: rtc-ia64-allow-other-architectures-to-use-efi-rtc-v2 This is v2 of the patch to fix a boot problem with kernels building in rtc-efi but not being booted via EFI. In that case, runtime services are not available so there is no point in registering the platform device. Signed-off-by: Mark Salter <msalter@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/rtc/rtc-efi-platform.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/rtc/rtc-efi-platform.c~rtc-ia64-allow-other-architectures-to-use-efi-rtc-v2 drivers/rtc/rtc-efi-platform.c --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-efi-platform.c~rtc-ia64-allow-other-architectures-to-use-efi-rtc-v2 +++ a/drivers/rtc/rtc-efi-platform.c @@ -21,8 +21,9 @@ static struct platform_device rtc_efi_de static int __init rtc_init(void) { - if (platform_device_register(&rtc_efi_dev) < 0) - pr_err("unable to register rtc device...\n"); + if (efi_enabled(EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES)) + if (platform_device_register(&rtc_efi_dev) < 0) + pr_err("unable to register rtc device...\n"); /* not necessarily an error */ return 0; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from msalter@xxxxxxxxxx are rtc-ia64-allow-other-architectures-to-use-efi-rtc.patch rtc-ia64-allow-other-architectures-to-use-efi-rtc-v2.patch linux-next.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html