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Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:18:36 +0100
From: Alessandro Zummo <alessandro.zummo@towertech.it>
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Subject: Re: [rtc-linux] Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/5] Generic RTC class driver
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On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:00:13 +0100 (CET)
Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> wrote:

> I didn't know NTP was broken with RTC class drivers?
> 
> So we should actually keep on using genrtc instead of rtc-ppc/rtc-generic for
> now? ;-)

 broken here means that the kernel won't save the time to the hardware
 rtc every 11 minutes as it used to do. normal NTP operations are unaffected.

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 Alessandro Zummo,
  Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy

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