From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ftp.linux-mips.org (ftp.linux-mips.org [213.58.128.207]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 073AEDDDA1 for ; Sat, 28 Feb 2009 04:34:15 +1100 (EST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]:9097 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20808785AbZB0RRg (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:17:36 +0000 Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:17:36 +0000 (GMT) From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" To: Alessandro Zummo Subject: Re: [rtc-linux] Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/5] Generic RTC class driver In-Reply-To: <20090225111836.621412c1@i1501.lan.towertech.it> Message-ID: References: <1235144809-32468-1-git-send-email-Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> <20090220170454.04382e9e@i1501.lan.towertech.it> <1235511327.18632.73.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <20090224231154.60ba18d6@i1501.lan.towertech.it> <1235514727.18632.93.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <20090225111836.621412c1@i1501.lan.towertech.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Richard Zidlicky , rtc-linux@googlegroups.com, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Development , David@ozlabs.org, Kyle McMartin , Linux/PPC Development , Linux/m68k , Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com, David Woodhouse List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Alessandro Zummo wrote: > > I didn't know NTP was broken with RTC class drivers? > > > > So we should actually keep on using genrtc instead of rtc-ppc/rtc-generic for > > now? ;-) > > broken here means that the kernel won't save the time to the hardware > rtc every 11 minutes as it used to do. normal NTP operations are unaffected. I posted patches to support it last year -- from your answer I infer they were not applied in the end. I'll see if I can try to refresh them and push again next time I'll be upgrading my kernel. Maciej