From: Nick Craig-Wood <ncw@axis.demon.co.uk>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: time goes backwards periodically on laptop if booted in low-power mode
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 09:03:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020219090321.B366@axis.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020218213049.A28604@axis.demon.co.uk> <E16cvgK-0006uq-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E16cvgK-0006uq-00@the-village.bc.nu>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 09:50:44PM +0000
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 09:50:44PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > This isn't fixing the root cause of the problem which is interactions
> > between the BIOS power management and the kernel I believe, but it
> > does fix the problem and is really quite cheap so perhaps might be
>
> do_gettimeofday is still going to give strange results - and consider
> the case where you boot slow and speed up...
This isn't a perfect fix certainly. Stopping time going backwards
stops the major application breakage though.
> If you can give me the DMI strings for the affected boxes I can add
> them to the DMi tables (see ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/alan/DMI*)
[sent via private email]
--
Nick Craig-Wood
ncw@axis.demon.co.uk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-19 9:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-17 16:34 time goes backwards periodically on laptop if booted in low-power mode Dan Kegel
2002-02-18 21:30 ` Nick Craig-Wood
2002-02-18 21:50 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-18 21:56 ` Dan Kegel
2002-02-18 22:12 ` time goes backwards periodically on laptop if booted in low-power Alan Cox
2002-02-19 9:03 ` Nick Craig-Wood [this message]
2002-02-18 21:54 ` time goes backwards periodically on laptop if booted in low-power mode Chris Friesen
2002-02-18 22:12 ` Nick Craig-Wood
2002-02-18 23:06 ` Chris Friesen
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