Frank van Maarseveen wrote:
>
> I didn't bother to report it earlier but when issuing the hwclock command
> it always hangs trying to read from /dev/rtc. Excerpt from strace output:
>
> gettimeofday({961335142, 924275}, NULL) = 0
> getuid() = 0
> open("/dev/rtc", O_RDONLY) = 3
> close(3) = 0
> open("/dev/rtc", O_RDONLY) = 3
> ioctl(3, 0x7003, 0) = 0
> read(3, <unfinished ...>
> [have to ^C]
>
> I have a IWILL DBL100 mobo + 2xPIII 450 MHz.
>
> Simply removing /dev/rtc is a workaround: hwclock will go directly to the
> hardware. However, manipulating the hardware clock that way is unclean
> for SMP.
That's interesting considering 2.4.0-test1 contains a reworking of the
rtc locking with SMP in mind. Can you sprinkle printk's all over the
drivers/char/rtc.c code, and see what's going on?
Jeff
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