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Re: mimic the RTC restart delay (was: hwclock issue)

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On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:31:35 +0200 (CEST)
Alain Guibert <alguibert+ulng@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>  - The mainline hwclock 2.33 by BJH at
> <URL:http://giraffe-data.com/software/about_hwclock.html> manages
> half-second RTCs by default. The user of another RTC may get perfect
> results with the --correct=+0.5 option (or --correct=+0.495 on RTCs
> having 10 ms of non-resyncable granularity).

 d'oh!

 we might eventually export something via sysfs.
 

>  - IINM the eleven-minutes mode of the Linux kernel, last time I looked,
> was scheduling the RTC write for the timer interrupt occuring at the
> closest to the middle of the second.

 this has been moved to a workqueue.
 


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 Best regards,

 Alessandro Zummo,
  Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy

  http://www.towertech.it

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