On Friday, February 8, 2008 at 16:04:08 +0100, Alain Guibert wrote:

> Method #3 (second_change) is clean, and usable by non-root users if
> they have read rights on /dev/rtc. Accuracy is a little bit less good
> on good kernels, catastrophic on bad kernels.

Bug #471203 revealed that the adjtimex --directisa method can fail on
a segfault on some exotic platforms. So we need a fully /dev/rtc method,
even when it has no interrupts. I change my mind again, and vote for
method #3 (this means to apply both patches 1 and 3).


Alain.



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