From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/14] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on x86
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 19:40:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060321184038.GA3929@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060321163852.GM31656@waste.org>
On Út 21-03-06 10:38:52, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 06:13:36PM +0000, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Hi!
> > > So this patch series simply removes the synchronization in favor of a
> > > simple seqlock-like approach using the seconds value.
> >
> > What about polling RTC from timer interrupt or something like that, so
> > that you get error in range of 5 msec instead of 500 msec? You can do
> > the calibration in parallel, then...
>
> I considered that and decided it wasn't worth the effort. People who
> care (which ought to be the empty set) can run /sbin/hwclock.
Fair enough, hwclock works for me.
Pavel
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-17 23:30 [PATCH 1/14] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on x86 Matt Mackall
2006-03-17 23:30 ` [PATCH 4/14] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on PPC CHRP (arch/ppc) Matt Mackall
2006-03-17 23:30 ` [PATCH 2/14] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on x86_64 Matt Mackall
2006-03-18 5:52 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-18 14:16 ` Matt Mackall
2006-03-17 23:30 ` [PATCH 3/14] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on Sparc64 Matt Mackall
2006-03-17 23:30 ` [PATCH 6/14] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on PPC Maple Matt Mackall
2006-03-17 23:30 ` [PATCH 5/14] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on CHRP (arch/powerpc) Matt Mackall
2006-03-17 23:30 ` [PATCH 7/14] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on MIPS Footbridge Matt Mackall
2006-03-17 23:58 ` Matt Mackall
2006-03-17 23:30 ` [PATCH 8/14] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on MIPS MC146818 Matt Mackall
2006-03-17 23:30 ` [PATCH 12/14] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on Alpha Matt Mackall
2006-03-17 23:30 ` [PATCH 9/14] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on MIPS-based DEC Matt Mackall
2006-03-17 23:30 ` [PATCH 13/14] RTC: Fix up some RTC whitespace and style Matt Mackall
2006-03-17 23:30 ` [PATCH 11/14] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on SH MPC1211 Matt Mackall
2006-03-17 23:30 ` [PATCH 10/14] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on SH03 Matt Mackall
2006-03-17 23:30 ` [PATCH 14/14] RTC: Remove some duplicate BCD definitions Matt Mackall
2006-03-18 5:53 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-19 18:13 ` [PATCH 1/14] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on x86 Pavel Machek
2006-03-21 16:38 ` Matt Mackall
2006-03-21 18:40 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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