On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:58:59PM -0800, David Brownell wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 November 2008, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > I believe you were also concerned that some device wouldn't want the
> > behaviour given by the existing sync_cmos_clock() function and workqueue
> > stuff in kernel/ntp.c, wher
On Tuesday 11 November 2008, David Woodhouse wrote:
> I believe you were also concerned that some device wouldn't want the
> behaviour given by the existing sync_cmos_clock() function and workqueue
> stuff in kernel/ntp.c, where we update the clock precisely half-way
> through the second?
That's a
On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:10:39 +
David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You might do better to open the device once and keep it open, rather
> than taking the mutex and opening it again _during_ each call? You're
> going to be perturbing the timing by doing that.
If you keep it open no o
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 02:10:39PM +, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 16:40 +0100, Alessandro Zummo wrote:
> > Adds in-kernel hctosys functionality that can
> > be used by ntp sync code.
> >
> > This is an RFC and has not been tested, I just want
> > to check if something simila
On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 16:40 +0100, Alessandro Zummo wrote:
> Adds in-kernel hctosys functionality that can
> be used by ntp sync code.
>
> This is an RFC and has not been tested, I just want
> to check if something similar could solve the problems
> of those who want the NTP sync mode.
You might
Adds in-kernel hctosys functionality that can
be used by ntp sync code.
This is an RFC and has not been tested, I just want
to check if something similar could solve the problems
of those who want the NTP sync mode.
Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Paul Mundt <[EMAIL PROTEC
On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:57:28 -0800
David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yeah, we should have one of these. :)
:) great! now let's see if we can get others
to agree!
> A better default might be to update all the RTCs on the system.
>
> I'm thinking of my trusty test-case here: rtc0
Yeah, we should have one of these. :)
On Monday 10 November 2008, Alessandro Zummo wrote:
> @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ config RTC_HCTOSYS
> unnecessary fsck runs at boot time, and to network better.
>
> config RTC_HCTOSYS_DEVICE
> - string "RTC used to set the system time"
> + string "
