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SubjectRe: [rtc-linux] Re: [PATCH 2/2] rtc: Add boot_timesource sysfs attribute
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 06:52:43PM +0200, Alessandro Zummo wrote:
>
> On Fri, 4 Sep 2009 17:41:27 +0100
> Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
>
> > > it shouldn't. maybe your hwclock is waiting for the tick
> > > or something similar. I'd check it.
> >
> > I'm just going by what our userspace people are saying. They'd prefer
> > not to have to run --hctosys if the time's already been set -
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=489494 has the discussion.
> >
>
> that's ok, but nonetheless there's a problem in hwclock
> if it takes 3 secs to read the time.

IMHO 3 seconds is nonsense. It's usually 0.5 - 1 second.

Anyway, the "hwclock --hctosys" in userspace is a mystical voodoo and
it's definitely better to move this thing to kernel.

Karel

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Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>


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