Messages in this thread | | | From | "Ulrich Windl" <> | Date | Thu, 20 May 1999 16:01:43 +0200 | Subject | Re: i386/RTC: old problem, new solution? |
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On 20 May 99, at 23:41, Richard Gooch wrote:
> Riley Williams writes:
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> > Unfortunately, it's already been dealt with in userspace, so any > > kernel patch you developed would be unlikely to be applied anyway. > > In fact, there already is a patch in the kernel: > CONFIG_APM_RTC_IS_GMT, but it's a temporary hack, until a better > scheme is implemented. The reason is that the kernel needs to know the > timezone the RTC is stored in when restoring the system clock after a > suspend/resume cycle. Automatically computing the difference has its > problems. >
Maybe you'll agree that akernel parameter is probably better than a compilation parameter. For distributions it will make things much easier.
Ulrich
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