Re: [PATCH 1/2] rtc/ia64: remove legacy efirtc driver

[Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 23/10/2019 21:30:29+0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> >> rtc-efi rtc-efi: setting system clock to 2019-10-23T18:30:23 UTC (1571855423)
> 
> > You can remove CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS, this line will disappear, systemd
> > will not like that but efirtc was not setting the system time anyway so
> > this shouldn't change the behaviour.
> 
> 
> Wait ... that message says "setting system clock"
> 
> but then you say " efirtc was not setting the system time anyway".
> 
> So did the time get set, or not?
> 
> If it wasn't set, why does the message say that it was set?
> 

What I meant was that drivers/char/efirtc.c was not setting the system
time but when using drivers/rtc/rtc-efi.c with CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS, the
kernel will use the rtc to set the system time.


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