Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 16:10:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 16:10:22 -0500 Received: from alfik.ms.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.19.71]:49927 "EHLO alfik.ms.mff.cuni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 16:10:09 -0500 Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 10:01:54 +0000 From: Pavel Machek To: Riley Williams Cc: Alex Bligh - linux-kernel , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Linux updates RTC secretly when clock synchronizes Message-ID: <20011106100153.B35@toy.ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <506556532.1004787679@[195.224.237.69]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from rhw@MemAlpha.cx on Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 06:35:44PM +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > >> 3. AFAICT, if xntpd writes to the RTC, then it has achieved true > >> synchronisation to a reference clock other than the RTC. > > > I thought the original poster was claiming that the /kernel/ > > wrote to the RTC, which would explain the behaviour I'm seeing. > > The kernel itself never writes to the RTC, and that is one of Linus's > decisions with which I am in 100% agreeance (and one thing I hate about > Windows). In fact, the kernel itself also doesn't read from the RTC > either, but leaves that to userspace. Wrong two times. Pavel -- Philips Velo 1: 1"x4"x8", 300gram, 60, 12MB, 40bogomips, linux, mutt, details at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/velo/index.html. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/