> > Hmm ... "looping" fights against "quickly"; as would "wait for next > > update IRQ" (on RTCs that support that). But it would improve precision, > > at least in the sense of having the system clock and that RTC spending > > less time with the lowest "seconds" digit disagreeing. > > > > This is something you could write a patch for, n'est-ce pas? > > If you're thinking of going that way,
Philippe seemed to be ... > it'd be courteous to CC Matt, > who devoted some effort to removing just that loop in 2.6.17 ;) Hmm ... "git whatchanged drivers/rtc/hctosys.c" shows no such change. So I can't find any record of such a change or its rationale. - dave - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/