[PATCH] ARM: Drop CONFIG_RTC_LIB dependency

Ezequiel Garcia ezequiel at vanguardiasur.com.ar
Fri Apr 15 12:22:18 PDT 2016


On 15 April 2016 at 15:31, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> On Friday 15 April 2016 14:58:10 Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
>> +Arnd
>>
>> On 2 April 2016 at 01:00, Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel at vanguardiasur.com.ar> wrote:
>> > The rtc-lib dependency seems to be here for very old historical
>> > reasons, but nowadays it shouldn't be needed. If any ARM
>> > platform requires rtc-lib, they should select it individually.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel at vanguardiasur.com.ar>
>> > ---
>> >  arch/arm/Kconfig | 1 -
>> >  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
>> > index cdfa6c2b7626..8efb1c605ac8 100644
>> > --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
>> > +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
>> > @@ -84,7 +84,6 @@ config ARM
>> >         select OLD_SIGACTION
>> >         select OLD_SIGSUSPEND3
>> >         select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
>> > -       select RTC_LIB
>> >         select SYS_SUPPORTS_APM_EMULATION
>> >         # Above selects are sorted alphabetically; please add new ones
>> >         # according to that.  Thanks.
>> > --
>> > 2.7.0
>> >
>>
>> If there's no feedback on this, I'll add it to Russell's patch tracker.
>
> Sorry for missing this the first time around. The patch looks fine to me,
> but I wonder if we should just do this for all architectures, the patch
> below looks like it should do the trick. If you want to have your ARM
> patch merged separately, that's fine too, please add my
>
> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
>

Sure, if your patch does not break any platform, then
I think it's much better than taking mine.

Thanks!

>         Arnd
>
> 8<------
> [PATCH] RTC: Drop CONFIG_RTC_LIB symbol
>
> The rtc-lib dependency seems to be here for very old historical
> reasons, but nowadays it shouldn't be needed. If any architecture
> platform requires rtc-lib support, it already needs to enable the
> CONFIG_RTC_CLASS along with the specific driver.
>
> This also fixes the dependency list for CONFIG_RTC and CONFIG_GEN_RTC
> so they don't include x86, which could no longer select these drivers
> after 3195ef59cb42 ("x86: Do full rtc synchronization with ntp").
>
> Based on patch from Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel at vanguardiasur.com.ar>
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> index 5cba8bd6172c..62c209504c0a 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> @@ -85,7 +85,6 @@ config ARM
>         select OLD_SIGACTION
>         select OLD_SIGSUSPEND3
>         select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
> -       select RTC_LIB
>         select SYS_SUPPORTS_APM_EMULATION
>         # Above selects are sorted alphabetically; please add new ones
>         # according to that.  Thanks.
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> index c9a3161e0aed..635dce3ee9cc 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> @@ -93,7 +93,6 @@ config ARM64
>         select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
>         select POWER_RESET
>         select POWER_SUPPLY
> -       select RTC_LIB
>         select SPARSE_IRQ
>         select SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
>         select HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
> diff --git a/arch/mips/Kconfig b/arch/mips/Kconfig
> index 35d92a119f9d..2dbc7893fba8 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/mips/Kconfig
> @@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ config MIPS
>         select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
>         select ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
>         select HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE if CPU_SUPPORTS_HUGEPAGES && 64BIT
> -       select RTC_LIB if !MACH_LOONGSON64
>         select GENERIC_ATOMIC64 if !64BIT
>         select ARCH_HAS_ATOMIC64_DEC_IF_POSITIVE
>         select HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
> diff --git a/arch/sh/Kconfig b/arch/sh/Kconfig
> index cb93af8f8017..86c180436396 100644
> --- a/arch/sh/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/sh/Kconfig
> @@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ config SUPERH
>         select HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
>         select MAY_HAVE_SPARSE_IRQ
>         select IRQ_FORCED_THREADING
> -       select RTC_LIB
>         select GENERIC_ATOMIC64
>         select GENERIC_IRQ_SHOW
>         select GENERIC_SMP_IDLE_THREAD
> diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> index 2632f6017cc1..3fea91106533 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> @@ -149,7 +149,6 @@ config X86
>         select OLD_SIGACTION                    if X86_32
>         select OLD_SIGSUSPEND3                  if X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
>         select PERF_EVENTS
> -       select RTC_LIB
>         select SPARSE_IRQ
>         select SRCU
>         select SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
> diff --git a/drivers/Makefile b/drivers/Makefile
> index 8be1ea2d1936..e71f4c7cd579 100644
> --- a/drivers/Makefile
> +++ b/drivers/Makefile
> @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ obj-y                         += usb/
>  obj-$(CONFIG_SERIO)            += input/serio/
>  obj-$(CONFIG_GAMEPORT)         += input/gameport/
>  obj-$(CONFIG_INPUT)            += input/
> -obj-$(CONFIG_RTC_LIB)          += rtc/
> +obj-$(CONFIG_RTC_CLASS)                += rtc/
>  obj-y                          += i2c/ media/
>  obj-$(CONFIG_PPS)              += pps/
>  obj-$(CONFIG_PTP_1588_CLOCK)   += ptp/
> diff --git a/drivers/char/Kconfig b/drivers/char/Kconfig
> index 629f1ff389b6..b5abc048362f 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/char/Kconfig
> @@ -275,11 +275,11 @@ config NVRAM
>  # These legacy RTC drivers just cause too many conflicts with the generic
>  # RTC framework ... let's not even try to coexist any more.
>  #
> -if RTC_LIB=n
> +if RTC_CLASS=n
>
>  config RTC
>         tristate "Enhanced Real Time Clock Support (legacy PC RTC driver)"
> -       depends on ALPHA || M32R || M68K || MIPS || MN10300 || PPC || X86
> +       depends on ALPHA || M32R || M68K || (MIPS && MACH_LOONGSON64) || MN10300 || PPC
>         ---help---
>           If you say Y here and create a character special file /dev/rtc with
>           major number 10 and minor number 135 using mknod ("man mknod"), you
> @@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ config JS_RTC
>  config GEN_RTC
>         tristate "Generic /dev/rtc emulation"
>         depends on RTC!=y
> -       depends on ALPHA || M68K || MN10300 || PARISC || PPC || X86
> +       depends on ALPHA || M68K || MN10300 || PARISC || PPC
>         ---help---
>           If you say Y here and create a character special file /dev/rtc with
>           major number 10 and minor number 135 using mknod ("man mknod"), you
> @@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ config DS1302
>           will get access to the real time clock (or hardware clock) built
>           into your computer.
>
> -endif # RTC_LIB
> +endif # RTC_CLASS
>
>  config DTLK
>         tristate "Double Talk PC internal speech card support"
> diff --git a/drivers/rtc/Kconfig b/drivers/rtc/Kconfig
> index f1e1f502be5d..59150f6c22f3 100644
> --- a/drivers/rtc/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/rtc/Kconfig
> @@ -2,14 +2,10 @@
>  # RTC class/drivers configuration
>  #
>
> -config RTC_LIB
> -       bool
> -
>  menuconfig RTC_CLASS
>         bool "Real Time Clock"
>         default n
>         depends on !S390 && !UML
> -       select RTC_LIB
>         help
>           Generic RTC class support. If you say yes here, you will
>           be allowed to plug one or more RTCs to your system. You will
> diff --git a/drivers/rtc/Makefile b/drivers/rtc/Makefile
> index ea2833723fa9..e44a0af93e7e 100644
> --- a/drivers/rtc/Makefile
> +++ b/drivers/rtc/Makefile
> @@ -4,11 +4,10 @@
>
>  ccflags-$(CONFIG_RTC_DEBUG)    := -DDEBUG
>
> -obj-$(CONFIG_RTC_LIB)          += rtc-lib.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS)      += hctosys.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_RTC_SYSTOHC)      += systohc.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_RTC_CLASS)                += rtc-core.o
> -rtc-core-y                     := class.o interface.o
> +rtc-core-y                     := class.o interface.o rtc-lib.o
>
>  ifdef CONFIG_RTC_DRV_EFI
>  rtc-core-y                     += rtc-efi-platform.o
>



-- 
Ezequiel García, VanguardiaSur
www.vanguardiasur.com.ar



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