From: Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>
To: poky@pokylinux.org
Subject: Re: Inconsistent timestamp use
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 10:05:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CD17A42.9070103@windriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CD16A8E.7090100@mlbassoc.com>
I was wondering why that wasn't working before.
It was also mentioned to me by someone at CELF that a lot of devices check the
superblock times to set their clocks as well. I don't know if Poky has this
behavior, but if it does that is not working either.
--Mark
On 11/3/10 8:58 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
> The Poky root file system (init scripts) has a mechanism for
> supporting systems without a working hardware [time of day] clock.
> It seems that this has suffered some rot recently and is now
> quite inconsistent:
> * rootfs_update_timestamp() uses a different format for the time stamp
> * the init scripts look for /etc/timestamp2, not /etc/timestamp which
> is created with the image
>
> The attached patch makes this consistent and the system clock now works
> much better (about as good as a machine without a hardware clock can!)
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-03 15:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-03 13:58 Inconsistent timestamp use Gary Thomas
2010-11-03 15:05 ` Mark Hatle [this message]
2010-11-03 15:35 ` Saul Wold
2010-11-03 15:45 ` Gary Thomas
2010-11-03 22:34 ` Saul Wold
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