Did you pick this up?  First sent on 3-11.

Andrew Morton wrote:
> Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 00:42 -0800, George Anzinger wrote:
>>
>>>This patch changes the update of the cmos clock to be timer driven
>>>rather than poll driven by the timer interrupt function.  If the clock
>>>is not being synced to an outside source the timer is removed and thus
>>>system overhead is nill in that case.  The update frequency is still ~11
>>>minutes and missing the update window still causes a retry in 60
>>>seconds.
>>
>>No replies yet.  Are there any objections to this patch?
> 
> 
> Nope.  I think it's neat.  I queued it up.

I had a nightmare about ntp coming in at the "wrong" time resulting in a
deadlock.  Attached locking changes will make me sleep better :)

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George Anzinger   george@mvista.com
High-res-timers:  http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/