linux-kernel - Re: [rtc-linux] Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/5] Generic RTC class driver

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Message-ID: <20090225111836.621412c1@i1501.lan.towertech.it>
Date:	Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:18:36 +0100
From:	Alessandro Zummo <alessandro.zummo@...ertech.it>
To:	rtc-linux@...glegroups.com
Cc:	Geert.Uytterhoeven@...ycom.com,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Richard Zidlicky <rz@...ux-m68k.org>,
	linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David@...abs.org, Kyle McMartin <kyle@...artin.ca>,
	Linux/PPC Development <linuxppc-dev@...abs.org>,
	Linux/m68k <linux-m68k@...ts.linux-m68k.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [rtc-linux] Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/5] Generic RTC class driver

On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:00:13 +0100 (CET)
Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@...ycom.com> wrote:

> I didn't know NTP was broken with RTC class drivers?
> 
> So we should actually keep on using genrtc instead of rtc-ppc/rtc-generic for
> now? ;-)

 broken here means that the kernel won't save the time to the hardware
 rtc every 11 minutes as it used to do. normal NTP operations are unaffected.

-- 

 Best regards,

 Alessandro Zummo,
  Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy

  http://www.towertech.it

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