Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 19:03:45 +0200
From: Alessandro Zummo <alessandro.zummo@towertech.it>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: rtc-linux@googlegroups.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [rtc-linux] Re: [PATCH 2/2] rtc: Add boot_timesource sysfs
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On Fri, 4 Sep 2009 17:55:49 +0100
Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 06:52:43PM +0200, Alessandro Zummo wrote:
> 
> >  that's ok, but nonetheless there's a problem in hwclock
> >  if it takes 3 secs to read the time.
> 
> The 3-second case is with virtualised access to the cmos, but you're 
> right that it does sound excessive. Even so, it seems like a win to be 
> able to avoid running code that the kernel's already run

 ok. I find boot_timesource to be not intuitive. I'd
 vote for hctosys or something like that.


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