Re: New kernel interface for sys_tz and timewarp?

Thomas Gleixner
2019-08-19T13:43:11Z

On Mon, 19 Aug 2019, Karel Zak wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 11:32:08AM +0200, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> > On 14/08/2019 11:09:36+0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > > On Mi, 14.08.19 10:31, Arnd Bergmann (arnd@arndb.de) wrote:
> > >
> > > > - glibc stops passing the caller timezone argument to the kernel
> > > > - the distro kernel disables CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS,
> > > > CONFIG_RTC_SYSTOHC and CONFIG_GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE
> > >
> > > What's the benefit of letting userspace do this? It sounds a lot more
> > > fragile to leave this syncing to userspace if the kernel can do this
> > > trivially on its own.
>
> Good point, why CONFIG_RTC_SYSTOHC has been added to the kernel?

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