On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 12:03:01 -0500 Prarit Bhargava <pra...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > AFAICT there is no way for me to "test" or use the write from userspace. > hwclock uses the SET_TIME ioctl, which is a different code path AFAICT. > > I'd like to be at least able to test this stuff when we make changes to it so > I > think having write functionality for date & time is worthwhile. > > For me, I'm using these to heavily test ntp and ntpdate over system reboots. the point is: who will benefit from this patch? users? distributions? embedded distributions? if it's useful, then just go for it. > OOC, Alessandro, why is the date & time split into two fields? because date and time are two different things and we expect sysfs to preferably have one value for each entry. -- Best regards, Alessandro Zummo, Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy http://www.towertech.it -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
