Re: select() to /dev/rtc0 to wait for clock tick timed out

[john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>]

On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 00:16 -0400, Matt Turner wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> I just sent a patch series to linux-mips@ that enables the RTC on a
> particular Broadcom MIPS motherboard (BCM91250A SWARM). The RTC is an
> M41T80.
> 
> When I first found the patchset (it was originally sent a a few years
> ago) and applied it to 2.6.37, it worked perfectly.
> 
> Applied to 3.x (and I think even 2.6.38) I get the following when I run hwclock:
> 
> # hwclock --systohc
> select() to /dev/rtc0 to wait for clock tick timed out
> 
> dmesg shows:
> 
> [    1.068000] i2c /dev entries driver
> [    1.072000] i2c-sibyte: i2c SMBus adapter module for SiByte board
> [    1.080000] rtc-m41t80 1-0068: chip found, driver version 0.06
> [    1.088000] rtc-m41t80 1-0068: rtc core: registered m41t81 as rtc0
> [    1.172000] rtc-m41t80 1-0068: setting system clock to 2011-08-18
> 19:56:53 UTC (1313697413)
> 
> I'm emailing you because I thought it might be the same problem as
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/1/20/306

Hmm. I thought we had gotten one that sorted. 

> Do you know what might be the problem?

I'll take a look and see what I find.

Thanks for the report!
-john