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| author | J William Piggott | 2017-09-21 03:20:47 +0200 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2017-09-21 10:13:53 +0200 |
| commit | 876bd687531b8af5851748aaa48ee18018d73760 (patch) | |
| tree | cfe805af75244c9ad6c5f5230cdda5e8812f552f /Documentation/releases | |
| parent | Docs: grammar fixes for v2.31-ReleaseNotes (diff) | |
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Docs: add hwclock 'highlights' v2.31-ReleaseNotes
Signed-off-by: J William Piggott <elseifthen@gmx.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/releases/v2.31-ReleaseNotes b/Documentation/releases/v2.31-ReleaseNotes index bc0c6f4ea..fb3e29e87 100644 --- a/Documentation/releases/v2.31-ReleaseNotes +++ b/Documentation/releases/v2.31-ReleaseNotes @@ -67,6 +67,14 @@ option --ambient-caps (thanks Patrick Steinhardt) and the new command line option --init-groups allows initialization of supplementary groups (thanks to Sebastian Schrader). +The hwclock command now significantly reduces system shutdown times by not +reading the RTC before setting it (except when the --update-drift option is +used). This also mitigates other potential shutdown and RTC setting problems +caused by requiring an RTC read. + +The hwclock command now logs --systz when using libaudit. Also, for busybox +compatibility -l is now aliased to --localtime. + Security issues --------------- |