Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760964AbXIQJM0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Sep 2007 05:12:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759615AbXIQJKo (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Sep 2007 05:10:44 -0400 Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.210]:47079 "EHLO mail.lst.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759051AbXIQJKm (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Sep 2007 05:10:42 -0400 From: Torsten Duwe Organization: LST e.V. To: bob.montgomery@hp.com Subject: Re: RFC: incorrect results from RTC reading method Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:10:08 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1189715635.12439.62.camel@amd.troyhebe> In-Reply-To: <1189715635.12439.62.camel@amd.troyhebe> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200709171110.09140.duwe@lst.de> X-Spam-Score: 0 () Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 575 Lines: 15 On Thursday 13 September 2007, Bob Montgomery wrote: > I think any method for reading the RTC must consider the (Update In > Progress) flag to avoid bogus results. This is a really good idea, I wonder if this has been tried before... But seriously, the RTC driver does that, and the boot process used to do that, too. Torsten - 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/