Bug#127975: config option for calling hwclock

[Philip Blundell <philb@gnu.org>]

In message <[🔎] 20020106223730.C16262@court.aleph1.co.uk>, Wookey writes:
>Exactly the same problem still exists for RiscPCs with 2.2 kernels (I think
>it was fixed in recent 2.4 kernels), so some scheme to avoid this
>automatically would be nice. On riscPCs we added a 'if dpkg-platform =
>riscpc don't run hwclock' to util-linux. That's a hack too - but is it a
>more acceptable one?

In the case of the RiscPC thing the right thing to do is to backport the fix
to the 2.2 kernels.  But in general, yes, adding a hack like that in util-linux
seems reasonable enough.

p.