Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:59:28 +0200
From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: rtc-linux@googlegroups.com
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [rtc-linux] Re: [PATCH 2/2] rtc: Add boot_timesource sysfs
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On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 06:52:43PM +0200, Alessandro Zummo wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 4 Sep 2009 17:41:27 +0100
> Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> 
> > >  it shouldn't. maybe your hwclock is waiting for the tick
> > >  or something similar. I'd check it.  
> > 
> > I'm just going by what our userspace people are saying. They'd prefer 
> > not to have to run --hctosys if the time's already been set - 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=489494 has the discussion.
> > 
> 
>  that's ok, but nonetheless there's a problem in hwclock
>  if it takes 3 secs to read the time.

 IMHO 3 seconds is nonsense. It's usually 0.5 - 1 second.
 
 Anyway, the "hwclock --hctosys" in userspace is a mystical voodoo and
 it's definitely better to move this thing to kernel.

    Karel

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