On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: > > So the warning comes a bit late :) > > I suspect if this was wrong before it would not have been noticed > because user space hwclock would work around it.
And how exaclty does it work around ? By setting the binary cmos clock with BCD values ? > The warning certainly won't hurt. It won't. > Anyways if you feel strongly about this (I don't) then drop > this patch, but apply the other ones in the series. I'm not opposing the patch, I merily asked for a removal of the never changing constant. > The main one I consider important is the change to the 2000 offset > for 32bit to extend the 32bit lifetime. Picked the whole lot up. Thanks, tglx -- 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/