Re: [rtc-linux] Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/5] Generic RTC class driver

Maciej W. Rozycki
2009-02-27T17:18:00Z

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