On 12/19/2013 08:24 PM, joeyli wrote: > > I agreed, but userspace application should not be too often to access > RTC. Maybe only when system boot and set timezone. > This is, quite frankly, an idiotic argument. Userspace doesn't access the RTC, the kernel does, and if the underlying implementation is broken it doesn't matter if it is accessed one time or a thousand. For the record, in most cases the RTC gets accessed about every 15 minutes to update the time based on network time. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html