Don't mention pre 2.2 Linux kernels in documentation

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Miroslav Lichvar
2013-08-02 15:36:46 +02:00
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@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ support hardware reference clocks to your computer, then xntpd will work fine.
Apart from not supporting hardware clocks, chrony will work fine too.
If your computer connects to the 'net for 5 minutes once a day (or something
like that), or you turn your (Linux v2.0) computer off when you're not using
like that), or you turn your Linux computer off when you're not using
it, or you want to use NTP on an isolated network with no hardware clocks in
sight, chrony will work much better for you.
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ The program needs to see the definitions of structures used to interact with
the real time clock (via /dev/rtc) and with the adjtimex() system call. Sadly
this has led to a number of compilation problems with newer kernels which have
been increasingly hard to fix in a way that makes the code compilable on all
Linux kernel versions (from 2.0 up anyway, I doubt 1.x still works.) Hopefully
Linux kernel versions. Hopefully
the situation will not deteriorate further with future kernel versions.
Q: I get "Could not open /dev/rtc, Device or resource busy" in my syslog file.