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Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 15:17:56 -0400
From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
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       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NTP: Let update_persistent_clock() sleep
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On Wed, 28 May 2008 19:15:41 +0100 (BST)
"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org> wrote:

>  This is a change that makes the 11-minute RTC update be run in the
> process context.  This is so that update_persistent_clock() can sleep,
> which may be required for certain types of RTC hardware -- most notably
> I2C devices.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

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