Bug#485064: clock-setup: Detect if --directisa option is needed?

[Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>]

reassign 485064 clock-setup 0.95
retitle 485064 Detect if --directisa option is needed?
thanks

Thanks for the report Franklin.

On Thursday 12 June 2008, Franklin Piat wrote:
> Comments/Problems:
> However, there's a clock bug :
> > # hwclock
> > select() to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed out
> > hwclock --directisa
> > Thu 12 Jun 2008 01:00:01 AM CEST  -0.461109 seconds
>
> (looks similar to
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=397096 ) Workround:
> add "HWCLOCKPARS=--directisa" in /etc/default/rcS

We continue to see this fairly regularly. There are also various BRs open 
against util-linux for this.

Maybe we should support this in clock-setup, for example by trying 
if --directisa works if it fails without. We could then either modify the 
config ourself, or display a message to the user that he should do so 
manually.