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authorAlexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>2018-02-06 23:05:34 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-03-15 18:01:42 +0100
commit3ba9faedc180097805613dac7a866432852cc4e5 (patch)
treeeb2d9a7d17a8faa42b3a755fbc64cbe53989dcea /drivers/char
parent75a898051d3d2a105b3a0ca8be6e356429a68457 (diff)
downloadlinux-3ba9faedc180097805613dac7a866432852cc4e5.tar.bz2
char: nvram: disable on ARM
/dev/nvram was never meant to be used alongside the RTC CMOS driver from drivers/rtc as it already expose the NVRAM through another interface.. Anyway, the last defconfig to enable it properly was removed in 2010 so prevent ARM users from selecting it. Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/Kconfig2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/Kconfig b/drivers/char/Kconfig
index c28dca0c613d..9bcac927cfd0 100644
--- a/drivers/char/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/char/Kconfig
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ source "drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig"
config NVRAM
tristate "/dev/nvram support"
- depends on ATARI || X86 || (ARM && RTC_DRV_CMOS) || GENERIC_NVRAM
+ depends on ATARI || X86 || GENERIC_NVRAM
---help---
If you say Y here and create a character special file /dev/nvram
with major number 10 and minor number 144 using mknod ("man mknod"),