On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:25:46 -0700 David Brownell <david-b@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Drawbacks of adding that requirement to drivers: needing to modify > and retest over three dozen drivers, adding a hard-to-test behavioral > quirk. > > Advantages to not doing so: no need to re-test several dozen drivers > on hardware that may not be readily testable, saner design for the RTC > infrastructure and its ongoing evolution. > > > ... that said, I have no objection to finding a better solution for > this half-second delay. One that doesn't involve changing dozens > of drivers. Agreed. Btw a typical x86 PC RTC could easily go off more than a half-a-sec/day so this shouldn't be a real issue. -- Best regards, Alessandro Zummo, Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy http://www.towertech.it -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
