Re: [PATCH 0/4] PM: Do not destroy/create devices while suspended (rev. 2)

* David Brownell [off-list ref] wrote:

I've been trying to make sure the x86 world could realistically switch 
to the RTC framework used by other Linux platforms, hence e.g. the 
util-unix-ng updates, but never assumed there would be no userspace 
changes.  After all, userspace was using a mishmash of tools that were 
far from platform-agnostic, and moving away from x86-dependency 
implies such things will change.

However I *do* think that symlinking rtc to /dev/rtc0 should make it 
practical to use most older binaries.

then please provide a kernel config option for the new driver to take 
over 10:135 too. There's nothing worse to the adoption of new kernel 
features necessiating user-space attention. I've got several images of 
old distros that i dont want to reconfigure in any way, and it would be 
nice to have a drop-in /dev/rtc replacement for them. Really. This is 
how we do it for just about everything else too.

	Ingo