From: Alessandro Zummo <alessandro.zummo@towertech.it>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: rtc-linux@googlegroups.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [rtc-linux] Re: [PATCH 2/2] rtc: Add boot_timesource sysfs attribute
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 19:03:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090904190345.02733404@i1501.lan.towertech.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090904165549.GA25802@srcf.ucam.org>
On Fri, 4 Sep 2009 17:55:49 +0100
Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 06:52:43PM +0200, Alessandro Zummo wrote:
>
> > that's ok, but nonetheless there's a problem in hwclock
> > if it takes 3 secs to read the time.
>
> The 3-second case is with virtualised access to the cmos, but you're
> right that it does sound excessive. Even so, it seems like a win to be
> able to avoid running code that the kernel's already run
ok. I find boot_timesource to be not intuitive. I'd
vote for hctosys or something like that.
--
Best regards,
Alessandro Zummo,
Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy
http://www.towertech.it
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-04 17:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-04 16:26 [PATCH 1/2] rtc: Document the sysfs interface Matthew Garrett
2009-09-04 16:26 ` [PATCH 2/2] rtc: Add boot_timesource sysfs attribute Matthew Garrett
2009-09-04 16:25 ` [rtc-linux] " Alessandro Zummo
2009-09-04 16:30 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-09-04 16:38 ` [rtc-linux] " Alessandro Zummo
2009-09-04 16:41 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-09-04 16:52 ` Alessandro Zummo
2009-09-04 16:55 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-09-04 17:03 ` Alessandro Zummo [this message]
2009-09-04 17:09 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-09-05 21:11 ` Alessandro Zummo
2009-09-06 1:34 ` Mark Brown
2009-09-14 22:59 ` Karel Zak
2009-09-04 16:26 ` [rtc-linux] [PATCH 1/2] rtc: Document the sysfs interface Alessandro Zummo
2009-09-04 16:35 ` Mark Brown
2009-09-04 16:39 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-09-04 16:52 ` [rtc-linux] " Mark Brown
2009-09-04 23:23 ` Andrew Morton
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