legacy rtc: remove needless/confusing HPET_RTC_IRQ option

HPET_RTC_IRQ is no longer needed; HPET_EMULATE_RTC suffices and is more
correct.  (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11111)

Note that when using the legacy RTC driver, platforms don't really do a
dynamic switch between HPET and non-HPET modes based on whether HPET
hardware actually exists ...  only rtc-cmos (using the new RTC framework)
currently switches that way.

So this reflects bitrot in that legacy code, for x86/ia64: kernels with
HPET support configured (e.g.  for a clocksource) can't get IRQs from the
legacy RTC driver unless they really have HPET hardware.  (The obvious
workaround is to not use the legacy RTC driver on those platforms when you
configure HPET ...  unless you know the target really has a HPET.)

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
David Brownell 2008-10-15 22:03:00 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent f841a487d4
commit 0f4d3fd8ac
2 changed files with 1 additions and 10 deletions

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@ -1043,15 +1043,6 @@ config HPET
open selects one of the timers supported by the HPET. The timers are
non-periodic and/or periodic.
config HPET_RTC_IRQ
bool
default HPET_EMULATE_RTC
depends on RTC && HPET
help
If you say Y here, you will disable RTC_IRQ in drivers/char/rtc.c. It
is assumed the platform called hpet_alloc with the RTC IRQ values for
the HPET timers.
config HPET_MMAP
bool "Allow mmap of HPET"
default y

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@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ static unsigned long rtc_port;
static int rtc_irq;
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_HPET_RTC_IRQ
#ifdef CONFIG_HPET_EMULATE_RTC
#undef RTC_IRQ
#endif