Re: RFC: incorrect results from RTC reading method

From: Torsten Duwe
Date: Mon Sep 17 2007 - 05:12:28 EST


On Thursday 13 September 2007, Bob Montgomery wrote:

> I think any method for reading the RTC must consider the (Update In
> Progress) flag to avoid bogus results.

This is a really good idea, I wonder if this has been tried before...
But seriously, the RTC driver does that, and the boot process used to do that,
too.

Torsten
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