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

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0902270142360.22096@ftp.linux-mips.org>
Date:	Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:17:36 +0000 (GMT)
From:	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>
To:	Alessandro Zummo <alessandro.zummo@...ertech.it>
cc:	rtc-linux@...glegroups.com, 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, Alessandro Zummo 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.

 I posted patches to support it last year -- from your answer I infer they 
were not applied in the end.  I'll see if I can try to refresh them and 
push again next time I'll be upgrading my kernel.

  Maciej
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