Calling this a VMware bug is unfair because:

  * The kernel KConfig for the new driver (at line 93) recommends
linking /dev/rtc to the new character device for backwards
compatibility, which Intrepid does not do.

  * The legacy /dev/rtc device has not been deprecated in either the Intrepid 
man page or kernel changelog.
 
  * The /dev/rtc device has existed for a long time, so people that use it will 
be surprised that it is missing in Intrepid.

All rtc-dev.c nodes should behave similarly, so the link referent that
udev chooses doesn't matter.  The problem with the older implementation
is that the RTC could be opened only once.

Thus, the missing /dev/rtc is a regression.

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/dev/rtc symlink not pointing at /dev/rtcN
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/252924
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