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

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Mon Feb 18 2002 - 16:50:44 EST


> This isn't fixing the root cause of the problem which is interactions
> between the BIOS power management and the kernel I believe, but it
> does fix the problem and is really quite cheap so perhaps might be

do_gettimeofday is still going to give strange results - and consider
the case where you boot slow and speed up...

If you can give me the DMI strings for the affected boxes I can add
them to the DMi tables (see ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/alan/DMI*)
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