[PATCH] ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: Change RTC_DRV_HYM8563 to builtin

Heiko Stuebner heiko at sntech.de
Sat Jan 9 14:45:52 PST 2016


Am Samstag, 9. Januar 2016, 20:33:51 schrieb Heiko Stuebner:
> Am Samstag, 9. Januar 2016, 20:28:02 schrieb Sjoerd Simons:
> > Apart from providing an RTC the hym8563 chip on some rockchip boards
> > (e.g. rock2 square and firefly) also provide the 32khz clock used by the
> > SoCs thermal sensors.
> > 
> > Switch the driver from a module to builtin such that the thermal
> > protection can work even if modules aren't used/loaded.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd.simons at collabora.co.uk>
> 
> Personally I'm ok with the reasoning for requiring rtc to be build in,
> but I guess others might disagree. Nevertheless
> 
> Acked-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko at sntech.de>
> 
> and we'll let armsoc-people decide ;-) .
> 
> 
> Ideally we would do the same for the rk808 rtc as well - as it is exactly
> the same argument / case.

just so nobody gets the wrong idea, on the rk808, the needed clkout is 
separate in CONFIG_COMMON_CLK_RK808, not in the rtc. Still currently build 
as module, so depending on if we can build-in the hym8563, we should change 
the rk808-clkout accordingly.



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