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

Alessandro Zummo alessandro.zummo at towertech.it
Wed Feb 25 21:18:36 EST 2009


On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:00:13 +0100 (CET)
Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven at sonycom.com> 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.

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 Best regards,

 Alessandro Zummo,
  Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy

  http://www.towertech.it




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