Re: PROBLEM: Linux updates RTC secretly when clock synchronizes

Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Thu, 8 Nov 2001 13:26:39 +0100


Hi!

> >> least as KERN_DEBUG if not as KERN_NOTICE) whenever the RTC is
> >> written to. It's too important a subsystem to be left hidden like
> >> it currently is.
>
> > This can be as well done in userland, enforced by whoever does rtc
> > writes, no?
>
> If some idiot writes a hwclock replacement that doesn't do logging, and

Then it is *his* problem. That's not excuse for putting it into kernel.

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