It's been 19.1315 years since the comment below was written and the kernel
has actually gone further away from allowing an RTC epoch on ISA machines.
/*
* Maintenance note: This should work on non-Alpha machines, but the
* evidence today (98.03.04) indicates that the kernel only keeps the epoch
* value on Alphas. If that is ever fixed, this function should be changed.
*/
The current behavior is to accept the epoch options on ISA machines
only to print a lengthy message explaining that you cannot use them.
This patch removes that behavior, making the epoch functions truly Alpha
only, as the man-page states that they are.
* sys-utils/hwclock.c: make epoch function alpha only.
* sys-utils/hwclock.h: same.
Signed-off-by: J William Piggott <elseifthen@gmx.com>