Re: set_rtc_time() cleanup / normalization

On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 05:30:13PM -0700, Eugene Surovegin wrote:

quoted

The main reason to remove it is thatit's broken (i. e. causes  kernel
crashes) on many hardware configurations.

Well, properly implemented set_rtc_time will not cause kernel crashes.
I doesn't crash on our hardware. Guess why?

Well, I didn't want to "me too" as an opponent of doing this in the
kernel but I guess I need to.  This type of thing doesn't *need* to
be in the kernel because it can be implemented in userspace.

<snip>

quoted

and you just removed the only argument to put
it into the timer interrupt at all.

Well, I don't see such placement as an optimization, just as some place
from where it can be done easily without requiring cron, hwclock or other
usermode stuff.

If cron and hwclock are too heavyweight for your fs then this is
screaming for a simple busybox solution.  I haven't looked at
busybox in a while, most of it might even be there already in a
slimmed down form factor.

Regards,
--
Matt Porter
mporter@kernel.crashing.org

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