Re: Improving hwclock support in Debian (testing wanted)

2012-02-21 Thread Ian Jackson
Marco d'Itri writes (Re: Improving hwclock support in Debian (testing wanted)): On Feb 18, Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net wrote: • There are currently two init scripts, hwclockfirst.sh and hwclock.sh. The reasons for these two originally existing Why do you still bother with init

Re: Improving hwclock support in Debian (testing wanted)

2012-02-21 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 21, Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk wrote: Please do not make udev mandatory. There are still refuseniks out there and I can see why they make that choice. Statistics show that they are not relevant. Duplicating code paths has a cost, and it's big when one of them is never

Improving hwclock support in Debian (testing wanted)

2012-02-18 Thread Roger Leigh
Hi, The attached patch against current util-linux cleans up hwclock handling with the following changes: • There are currently two init scripts, hwclockfirst.sh and hwclock.sh. The reasons for these two originally existing (/etc/localtime not being present until after /usr was mounted

Re: Improving hwclock support in Debian (testing wanted)

2012-02-18 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 03:59:23PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: Hi, The attached patch against current util-linux cleans up hwclock handling with the following changes: • Also adds /etc/default/hwclock and hwclock(5) which permit configuration without editing the initscript, and also

Re: Improving hwclock support in Debian (testing wanted)

2012-02-18 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 18, Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net wrote: • There are currently two init scripts, hwclockfirst.sh and hwclock.sh. The reasons for these two originally existing Why do you still bother with init scripts? With very good approximation, nowadays all systems which need hwclock (i.e. are

Re: Improving hwclock support in Debian (testing wanted)

2012-02-18 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 08:00:28PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Feb 18, Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net wrote: • There are currently two init scripts, hwclockfirst.sh and hwclock.sh. The reasons for these two originally existing Why do you still bother with init scripts? With very