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Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 13:38:12 +0100
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH, resend] x86: enable rtc-efi
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On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 01:08:22PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> Besides a Kconfig change this just requires creating a corresponding
> platform device.

I don't think this is a good idea yet - we completely fail to perform 
timezone handling with the EFI clock, which violates platform 
expectations. We should fix that up first.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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