Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:59:28 +0200 | From | Karel Zak <> | Subject | Re: [rtc-linux] Re: [PATCH 2/2] rtc: Add boot_timesource sysfs attribute |
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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
-- Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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