[Bug 16345] hwclock -r fails on Dell Precision 670 due to rtc driver, use genrtc instead?

[Andy Grover]

Public bug reported:

This seems to be a common problem with Dell server/workstation machines. Doing a
hwclock -r fails with:

select() to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed out

rmmoding rtc and insmoding genrtc fixes it (as does hwclock -r
--directisa)

See also https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=144894

** Affects: linux-source-2.6.15 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Medium
     Assignee: LaMont Jones
         Status: Fix Released

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hwclock -r fails on Dell Precision 670 due to rtc driver, use genrtc instead?
https://launchpad.net/bugs/16345