From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx0.towertech.it (mx0.towertech.it [213.215.222.73]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9210F67BDD for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 09:53:24 +1100 (EST) Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 23:53:17 +0100 From: Alessandro Zummo To: "Joakim Tjernlund" Subject: Re: NTP time sync Message-ID: <20061126235317.5d40d22c@inspiron> In-Reply-To: <00b301c711a3$07cf3530$020120ac@Jocke> References: <20061126202148.190d5b4b@inspiron> <00b301c711a3$07cf3530$020120ac@Jocke> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: akpm@osdl.org, 'Andi Kleen' , 'Linux Kernel Mailing List' , ralf@linux-mips.org, 'David Brownell' , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, lethal@linux-sh.org, paulus@samba.org, kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp, davem@davemloft.net, rmk@arm.linux.org.uk List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 22:37:10 +0100 "Joakim Tjernlund" wrote: > > the concept of static numbers is quite old... > > Yes it is old, but is the old way unsupported now? I have an embedded target > which is using the old static /dev directory, do I need to make > it udev aware to use newer features like the rtc subsystem? That can be a good option. You can also do a symlink to /dev/rtc0 in your boot scripts or simply upgrade your hwclock to a version that accepts the device as a parameter. The old /dev/rtc name is not supported on the new rtc subsystem. -- Best regards, Alessandro Zummo, Tower Technologies - Turin, Italy http://www.towertech.it