Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 04:05:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 04:03:35 -0500 Received: from finch-post-12.mail.demon.net ([194.217.242.41]:52241 "EHLO finch-post-12.mail.demon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 04:03:26 -0500 Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 09:03:21 +0000 From: Nick Craig-Wood To: Alan Cox Cc: Dan Kegel , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: time goes backwards periodically on laptop if booted in low-power mode Message-ID: <20020219090321.B366@axis.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20020218213049.A28604@axis.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 09:50:44PM +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 09:50:44PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > This isn't fixing the root cause of the problem which is interactions > > between the BIOS power management and the kernel I believe, but it > > does fix the problem and is really quite cheap so perhaps might be > > do_gettimeofday is still going to give strange results - and consider > the case where you boot slow and speed up... This isn't a perfect fix certainly. Stopping time going backwards stops the major application breakage though. > If you can give me the DMI strings for the affected boxes I can add > them to the DMi tables (see ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/alan/DMI*) [sent via private email] -- Nick Craig-Wood ncw@axis.demon.co.uk - 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/