From: J William Piggott Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 01:20:47 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Docs: add hwclock 'highlights' v2.31-ReleaseNotes X-Git-Tag: v2.31-rc1~6 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=876bd687531b8af5851748aaa48ee18018d73760;p=thirdparty%2Futil-linux.git Docs: add hwclock 'highlights' v2.31-ReleaseNotes Signed-off-by: J William Piggott --- diff --git a/Documentation/releases/v2.31-ReleaseNotes b/Documentation/releases/v2.31-ReleaseNotes index bc0c6f4ea8..fb3e29e87c 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 ---------------