Sorry, I somehow missed the PR on GitHub :-(
On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 02:28:59PM +0100, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> This (effectively) reverts commit
> 1811900a91be856e794005511eac7859adb8e383.
>
> There was no real motivation given, and it certainly makes the default
> behaviour of hwclock on current linux systems counter-intuitive: udev
> has a standard rule so that whichever rtc device is designated as the
> CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS_DEVICE one in the kernel configuration also becomes
> the target of the /dev/rtc symlink. People may have some other way of
> setting that symlink, but regardless, that must be considered the
> primary or default rtc for the system.
I agree that after 8 years, it's probably fine to use the /dev/rtc
symlink as the first option and assume that udevd has done its job
correctly. The current situation is somewhat messy.
Let's CC: William who is author of the original patch.
I'll apply your change.
Karel
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