On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
quoted text > > 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 ?
quoted text > The warning certainly won't hurt.
It won't.
quoted text > 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.
quoted text > 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
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