Re: RTC bug?

[Ian O. <ia...@cc...>]

On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, William Cohen wrote:

> I see that you have filed a bugzilla report on oprofile, 76455. The
> problem is the default RH Linux 8.0 kernel has the RTC support compiled
> into the kernel and this RTC support conflicts with the OProfile RTC
> support (P4 only supported via RTC mode).  You can pass a kernel option
> "nortc" in the grub.conf file to allow OProfile in RTC mode to be used
> on Pentium 4 (and other processors with unsupported performance
> monitoring hardware).
>
> In the RH Linux kernel 8.0, OProfile is not a module. The OProfile
> support is compiled into the kernel. It shouldn't attempt to load a
> module. The error message you are seeing is a side effect of
> /proc/devices/oprofile not being there because the RTC conflict.

Is it sufficient for me to just comment out the module loading segments of
op_start?

Ian


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