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From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
To: Alessandro Zummo <alessandro.zummo@towertech.it>
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On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Alessandro Zummo 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.

 I posted patches to support it last year -- from your answer I infer they 
were not applied in the end.  I'll see if I can try to refresh them and 
push again next time I'll be upgrading my kernel.

  Maciej