Re: time goes backwards periodically on laptop if booted in low-power mode

[Nick Craig-Wood]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 04:54:23PM -0500, Chris Friesen wrote:
> Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
> > I made a patch to fix this (this is its first outing).  It stops
> > do_gettimeofday reporting a time less than it reported last time.
> 
> I see a minor problem here...what happens if you want to reset your clock (for
> whatever purpose) to a previous time?

Sorry that was a simplified explanation above.  If you examine the
patch you'll see that it can only change the time by < 1 jiffy (10ms).
However this is the interval wrongly estimated by the CPU's timer
(because the laptop's clock rate is not what the kernel thinks it is).

Ie, shouldn't be a problem.

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