On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 12:21 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Hans de Goede (j.w.r.degoede@xxxxxx) said: > > I'm no where near sure that this is the correct fix. I wonder if /dev/rtc > > is needed during the initrd at all, and if it isn't I think that the initrd > > should not create it all. Then rc.sysinit should be modified to run hwclock > > after udev, or if there are reasons not to, create the /dev entry and load > > the driver itself. > > The idea is to set the clock as early as possible, to ensure coordination > among log messages, etc. After udev by definition isn't as early as > possible. > > That being said, we *could*: > - move clock setting later > - set the clock from a udev rule > > Ideally, we could use the kernel support for automatically setting the > clock when the rtc driver is initialized, but that would require everyone > to have their clocks set in UTC, or have the kernel reading a userspace > config file. Wouldn't be bad to start requiring to have the clock in UTC. But I guess dual-boot systems are the problem ? Simo. -- Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
