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

[Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:48:25PM +0200, Alain Guibert wrote:
> I may be wrong, but to me the adaptation to various RTC behaviours
> should be automatic, transparent to users. Fixed by other means. And
> users should have the --correct option fully available (always zero
> based on all RTCs) to fight against the constant part of the usual small
> machine-dependant setting errors, like the around -2 ms bias of PCs.

 We can resolve the problem in userspace. I can imagine hwclock(8)
 that reads

    /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/settime_offset_ms

 rather than the --correct command line option.

    Karel

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