On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 14:41:14 +0200 (CEST) Alain Guibert <alguibert+ulng@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello David, > > On Wednesday, August 6, 2008 at 17:19:49 -0700, David Brownell wrote: > > > in practice [/sys/class/rtc/rtc0/settime_offset_ms is] never needed > > except for PC-compatible RTCs (as we already discussed). > > You proposed that in the absence of the settime_offset_Ns information, > hwclock should consider it to be zero. There is a problem with this > approach: hwclock would misbehave on PC-compatible RTCs with today's and > older kernels. hwclock could check /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/name and assume 0 if the driver is not rtc_cmos. -- 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
