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  1. Bug #252924
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 252924

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Darik Horn (dajhorn) wrote :

Calling this a VMware bug is unfair because:

  * The kernel KConfig for the new driver (at line 93) recommends linking /dev/rtc to the new character device for backwards compatibility, which Intrepid does not do.

  * The legacy /dev/rtc device has not been deprecated in either the Intrepid man page or kernel changelog.

  * The /dev/rtc device has existed for a long time, so people that use it will be surprised that it is missing in Intrepid.

All rtc-dev.c nodes should behave similarly, so the link referent that udev chooses doesn't matter. The problem with the older implementation is that the RTC could be opened only once.

Thus, the missing /dev/rtc is a regression.