Hello Noé, I recalled the first set of patches from 14/09/14 titled '[PATCH 1/2] hwclock: hctosys drift compensation' and '[PATCH 2/2] hwclock: hctosys drift compensation man page' Do not use those. Use only the 1/7 ~ 7/7 patch set as it supersedes the first. Sorry for the confusion. On 10/09/2014 04:51 AM, Noé RUBINSTEIN wrote: > Hi J, > > I tried appplying your patches and got into some problems: >> Applying: hwclock: hctosys drift compensation II >> error: patch failed: sys-utils/hwclock.c:807 >> error: sys-utils/hwclock.c: patch does not apply > > I tried that both upon origin/master and upon fb2ba06, which you seem > to have based your first patch on. > > Here's the list of patches I was trying to apply: >> [PATCH 1/2] hwclock: hctosys drift compensation >> [PATCH 2/2] hwclock: hctosys drift compensation man page >> [PATCH 1/7] hwclock: hctosys drift compensation II >> [PATCH 2/7] hwclock: hctosys drift compensation II COMMENTS >> [PATCH 3/7] hwclock: hctosys drift compensation II MAN >> [PATCH 4/7] hwclock: persistent_clock_is_local >> [PATCH 5/7] hwclock: persistent_clock_is_local MAN >> [PATCH 6/7] hwclock: Add --update option >> [PATCH 7/7] hwclock: Add --update option MAN > > Did I overlook a patch somewhere? > > > 2014-10-07 17:50 GMT+02:00 JWP <elseifthen@xxxxxxx>: >> >> On 10/07/2014 08:48 AM, Noé RUBINSTEIN wrote: >>>> Sure, hwclock already has the ability to track the offset between the >>>> Hardware Clock and the System Clock(which presumably is the 'correct' time). >>> ...but this information is recorded only when setting the hardware >>> clock, which is impossible on some (arguably buggy) targets. >> >> Are you sure that drift factor (re)calculation does not happen if >> writing the Hardware Clock fails? I just had a quick look at the >> code and it seem that we do not test to see if write fails. So >> (re)calculation might work as is? > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html