On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:16:21PM +0100, Frank A. Kingswood wrote: > Hallo! > > Recently people have been trying to trim boot times, and the one-second > delay in hwclock to read or write the CMOS clock is much more noticable > in a 15 second boot than in a 60 second boot. > > Many machines will have NTP configured and could do without the extra > accuracy that the synchronize_to_clock_tick() gives. > > A patch > http://chezphil.org/tmp/hwclock-add-notickwait.patch > was given in > http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/620 > > which adds an option --notickwait to hwclock, to skip this synchronisation Note that Bryan Henderson's hwclock uses the "--fast" option to skip the synchronization. > Are there any plans to integrate this patch in hwclock? Not sure... it seems better to move the hctosys voodoo from userspace to kernel (already implemented by CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS). For more details see Kay's response. Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> -- 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
