kernel: where's my RTC gone?

[Arkadiusz Miskiewicz]

On Sunday 05 of April 2009, Tomasz Pala wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 22:25:39 +0100, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> >> BTW why is it build into kernel not module?
> >
> > Because it's always used and there is no point of having it in module.
>
> Is it?
>
> ~#  lsmod | grep rtc; rmmod rtc; date; lsmod | grep rtc
> rtc                     8696  0
> Sun Apr  5 23:39:46 CEST 2009
> ~#
>
>
> Only hwclock and mplayer uses it here, so I doubt it's 'always'.

hwclock is always run by our rc-scripts (well, there are corner cases) but rtc 
module isn't autoloaded in such case ;/

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Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz        PLD/Linux Team
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