On Fri, Mar 13, 2015, at 20:22, J William Piggott wrote: > +If the kernel is compiled with the \%'11\ minute\ mode' option it will > +be active when the kernel's clock discipline is in a synchronized state. > +When in this state the binary 64's bit of the kernel's [...] s/state the/state, the/ This comma really is needed, because without it I start to read the sentence as "When in this state the binary... explodes, you are in deep shit." About the "binary 64's bit"... As explained in our private conversation, I think this is an absurd and incomprehensible way of referring to bit 6 (with the least-significant bit being bit 0) of a value. Please think of something else. > +.I \%time_status > +variable is unset (10111111). Ow. That is puzzling. As if all the other bits have to be set in order for bit 6 to be unset. I would instead say something like: "When in this state, bit 6 (the bit that is set in the mask 0x0040) of the kernel's time_status variable is *unset*." > +It can be turned off by running anything, including > .BR \%hwclock\ \-\-hctosys , > that sets the System Clock the old fashioned way. I would move the "including..." phrase to the end of the sentence, as now one at first thinks that really *anything* can turn 11-minute mode off. Benno -- http://www.fastmail.com - Email service worth paying for. Try it for free -- 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
