Your message dated Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:08:24 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#174141: hwclock: unneccecary 'errors' on devfs only
configurations
has caused the Debian Bug report #174141,
regarding util-linux: [hwclock] Please try /dev/misc/rtc before /dev/rtc
(rather than after) to work better with devfs
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Package: util-linux
Version: 2.11n-4
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Hi,
On a devfs machine with compatibility symlinks disabled, running hwclock
(on startup or at any other time) results in modprobe errors 'no such
module /dev/rtc'.. several of them. hwclock still works, because if
/dev/rtc cannot be opened, it falls back to /dev/misc/rtc, the devfs location.
I've attached a patch which changes the search order so that
/dev/misc/rtc is checked first.. on a non-devfs machine this will not
exist but since there is no devfsd, no error occurs, and it will happily
fall back to /dev/rtc (I tested it).
I hope you agree with this, and thanks for maintaining the package in
the first place.
Thanks,
Torne Wuff
------- Begin patch cutoff -----------
--- rtc.c.old Mon Dec 23 22:52:48 2002
+++ rtc.c Mon Dec 23 22:57:14 2002
@@ -96,10 +96,10 @@
open_rtc(void) {
int rtc_fd;
- sprintf(rtc_dev_name, "/dev/%s", RTC_DEVN);
+ sprintf(rtc_dev_name, "/dev/misc/%s", RTC_DEVN);
rtc_fd = open(rtc_dev_name, O_RDONLY);
if (rtc_fd < 0) {
- sprintf(rtc_dev_name, "/dev/misc/%s", RTC_DEVN);
+ sprintf(rtc_dev_name, "/dev/%s", RTC_DEVN);
rtc_fd = open(rtc_dev_name, O_RDONLY);
}
return rtc_fd;
----------- end of patch --------------
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux electricpup 2.4.20 #1 Mon Dec 23 21:47:38 GMT 2002 i586
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages util-linux depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.5-11.2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libncurses5 5.2.20020112a-7 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii slang1 1.4.4-7.2 The S-Lang programming library - r
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Closing, devfs does not exist anymore.
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ciao,
Marco
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