openrc-discuss

Matthias Schwarzott wrote:
> On Dienstag, 10. November 2009, Ed W wrote:
> > Roy Marples wrote:
> > > Why the need to add a dependency calc script? Provided that the clock
> > > increases upwards and never backwards, openrc should detect changed
> > > configs and update dependency tree automatically.
> > Oops, in that case I missed that it writes the dep tree every time and
> > not just in the shutdown script?
> >
> > However, will need to double check that on my 0.4 system because it
> > didn't *seem* to be happening that way - might have just missed
> > something though
>
> As udev creates its device-nodes in sysinit runlevel, isn't it an improvement 
> to add hwclock / swclock init-scripts to sysinit runlevel too?
> I know this is just an idea, and may collide with hwclock 
> accessing /etc/adjtime or similar stuff.

This shouldn't be an issue as hwclock will only read at that point.
Besides, using adjtime bites you in the ass badly when you enable ntp :/

I see no issue with adding swclock to the sysinit runlevel.
I expect Ed will update us :)

Thanks

Roy