Comment 2 for bug 274402

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Tim Gardner (timg-tpi) wrote :

SRU Justification

Impact: RTC can become non-functional

Patch Description: Disable the fallback clause in hwclock.c. It should never use direct I/O access unless explicitly requested as a command line option.

Patch: attached

Test Case:

#!/bin/bash
let i=0
while [ $i -lt 10 ]
do
hwclock &
let i=$i+1
done