Ethan posts:
> yes, hwclock uses /dev/rtc, well at least on powerpc
> it does, without a working /dev/rtc it fails.
You may be right with a PowerPC but your reasoning will
not work on an x86 machine. Can we say that the original
poster did not give us architecture details ? ;-)
> checking it now it seems to fall back to some other
> method (at least for --show) on x86.
It is. Please do read the util-linux docs at
/usr/share/doc/util-linux/README.Debian.hwclock.gz.
You need not have the module 'rtc' at all. So switch it
off and update your modules.conf
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