kernel: where's my RTC gone?

Patryk Zawadzki patrys at pld-linux.org
Tue Apr 7 11:11:38 CEST 2009


On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Tomasz Pala <gotar at polanet.pl> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 23:44:34 +0200, Tomasz Pala wrote:
>
>>>> BTW why is it build into kernel not module?
>>>
>>> Because it's always used and there is no point of having it in module.
>>
>> Is it?
> [...]
>> Only hwclock and mplayer uses it here, so I doubt it's 'always'.
> If no arguments are given till Saturday I'm reverting this back into
> module.

I don't care about mplayer, but if you revert, first force a modprobe
when running hwclock during boot. I'm not going to reboot all the
machines I take care of just to make sure the time is right upon boot
:)

-- 
Patryk Zawadzki


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