> Is there at least away we can recover the proper system time > after these stalls? > > re-read the RTC -- but that's pretty slow and ugly Be very careful doing that in 2.4test. The 2.2 CMOS locking patches are not yet in so there is already a window for CMOS problems as far as I can tell. Don't make it bigger - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/