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

[Stuart Rossiter]

I still have this problem on a Dell Optiplex 745 with the latest kernel
(2.6.22):

uname -r
2.6.22-14-386

sudo hwclock -r
select() to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed out

Works with --directisa option as mentioned elsewhere:

sudo hwclock -r --directisa --utc
Wed 02 Apr 2008 11:21:40 BST  -0.855465 seconds

So should this bug be re-opened??

P.S. I've seen elsewhere about adding the directisa option to
HWCLOCKPARS in /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh (and I guess hwclockfirst.sh as
well). Is this a sensible workaround to do? When are these run (every
boot or e.g. only when using NTP?)? I don't seem to have any issues with
my time being wrong as is.

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