On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Anybody knows how to make sure that the kernel will not mess with the > hardware > clock every 11 minutes? The proper way would be to use a kernel that > doesn't > try to do it, but I want to use Arch's standard kernel, which has > CONFIG_GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE=y. > Maybe something in /proc? > "Use the source, Luke!" In the kernel source you can see that this option is only used in kernel/time/ntp.c, and it affects only the system call "adjtimex". And from "man adjtimex", it looks like it is called from ntp clients of the like... More investigation required... -- Rodrigo
