On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 11:58:24AM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 13:23 +0100, Karel Zak wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 12:12:54PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > > +This is an alternate option to
> > > +.B \-\-hctosys
> > > +that does not read the hardware clock, and may be used in system startup
> > > +scripts for recent 2.6 kernels where you know the System Time contains
> > > +the Hardware Clock time. You must specify either
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > +.B \-\-utc
> > > +or
> > > +.B \-\-localtime
> > > +to indicate whether an adjustment needs to be made.
> >
> > Is it really good idea to require the --{utc,localtime} option when
> > we have all necessary information in /etc/adjtime?
> >
> I did it that way simply because where we call hwclock, the root
> filesystem is always read-only (both on startup and shutdown) so we
> don't use /etc/adjtime at all.
>
> I guess it makes sense to make that more flexible.
>
> Should I rework the patch to do this?
Yes, please. Thanks!
Karel
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