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Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 02:01:37 +0100
From: Kurt Roeckx <Q@ping.be>
To: Alex Bligh - linux-kernel <linux-kernel@alex.org.uk>
Cc: Riley Williams <rhw@MemAlpha.cx>, Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>,
        Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Linux updates RTC secretly when clock synchronizes
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On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 12:44:21AM -0000, Alex Bligh - linux-kernel wrote:
> 
> 
> --On Wednesday, 07 November, 2001 12:00 AM +0000 Riley Williams 
> <rhw@MemAlpha.cx> wrote:
> 
> >  2. The kernel makes no internal reference to the /dev/rtc driver,
> >     and it is left to userland tools to sync to the RTC on boot,
> >     and at other times as required.
> 
> I think the kernel should set the machine time to the RTC time
> as an initializer on boot. Other than that, I agree.

Which is something you do from userspace.


Kurt