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

From: Alessandro Zummo
Date: Wed Feb 25 2009 - 05:18:53 EST


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