31 Jul
2012
31 Jul
'12
8:05 p.m.
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@gmail.com> wrote:
Anybody knows how to make sure that the kernel will not mess with the hardware clock every 11 minutes? The proper way would be to use a kernel that doesn't try to do it, but I want to use Arch's standard kernel, which has CONFIG_GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE=y. Maybe something in /proc?
"Use the source, Luke!" In the kernel source you can see that this option is only used in kernel/time/ntp.c, and it affects only the system call "adjtimex". And from "man adjtimex", it looks like it is called from ntp clients of the like... More investigation required... -- Rodrigo