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char: nvram: disable on ARM

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/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>
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Alexandre Belloni 2018-02-06 23:05:34 +01:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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@ -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"),