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

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

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