Call for testing: hwclock changes

Steve Langasek steve.langasek at ubuntu.com
Wed Feb 18 02:22:19 GMT 2009


On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:40:36AM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 15:28 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:

> > Should /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh be stripped down to be a no-op on 'start',
> > since there's no longer any reason to call it with this argument?

> I left this there for maximum Debian compatibility - LaMont likes as
> small a delta as possible, and it means it's trivial to put back if
> people have a genuine use-case for it.

So these changes aren't intended to be pushed back to Debian, or aren't
expected to be acceptable?  Is this because there's still an expectation
that udev is not required?

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