From 876bd687531b8af5851748aaa48ee18018d73760 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: J William Piggott Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 21:20:47 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Docs: add hwclock 'highlights' v2.31-ReleaseNotes Signed-off-by: J William Piggott --- Documentation/releases/v2.31-ReleaseNotes | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) 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 --------------- -- 2.47.2