Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 431163
sysctl dev.rtc.max-user-freq no longer exists in the kernel
Last modified: 2009-07-14 13:37:57 EDT
Description of problem: What happened to this sysctl? It appears that some stuff depends on this setting, e.g. kqemu. There is only a hpet.max-user-freq now and I get this funky permission error on 'sysctl -a': # /sbin/sysctl -a | grep freq error: permission denied on key 'kernel.sched_nr_migrate' dev.hpet.max-user-freq = 64 # /sbin/sysctl -n -q dev.rtc.max-user-freq error: "dev.rtc.max-user-freq" is an unknown key Also, there is no more /proc/sys/dev/rtc directory at all. Is this an artifact using CONFIG_RTC_CLASS/CONFIG_RTC_DRV_CMOS instead of CONFIG_RTC? What should applications that were changing this setting do now? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.24-9.fc9.x86_64
/sys/class/rtc/rtc0/max-user-freq
Ok, so the API changed. Will the 'sysctl' command be updated to search for sysctls under /sys/class now? I think the wiser move is to make sure the new rtc driver exports the same sysctls under /proc/sys that the old one did.
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