From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.free-electrons.com (down.free-electrons.com. [37.187.137.238]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTP id w129si364446wme.1.2016.02.02.02.41.11 for ; Tue, 02 Feb 2016 02:41:11 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 11:41:11 +0100 From: Alexandre Belloni To: Joshua Clayton Cc: Alessandro Zummo , rtc-linux@googlegroups.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [rtc-linux] Re: [PATCH v2 7/8] rtc: implement a sysfs interface for clock offset Message-ID: <20160202104111.GU20165@piout.net> References: <0000-cover-letter.patch> <8361752a4e0c524e15cbed36d03eb3eb9b187815.1451929910.git.stillcompiling@gmail.com> <20160131114115.GJ20165@piout.net> <20160201125648.37475997@jclayton-pc> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 In-Reply-To: <20160201125648.37475997@jclayton-pc> Reply-To: rtc-linux@googlegroups.com List-ID: List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: , List-Unsubscribe: , On 01/02/2016 at 12:56:48 -0800, Joshua Clayton wrote : > > I'm fine with having parts per billion as the unit and I hope we won't > > ever need anything more precise :) > > > It is orders of magnitude more than needed at present Yeah, until we get an RTC with an offset precision that has 4 decimals in ppm. > ...and no will ever need more than 640k of memory... right? Right :) -- Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to "rtc-linux". Membership options at http://groups.google.com/group/rtc-linux . Please read http://groups.google.com/group/rtc-linux/web/checklist before submitting a driver. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "rtc-linux" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rtc-linux+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754697AbcBBKlO (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Feb 2016 05:41:14 -0500 Received: from down.free-electrons.com ([37.187.137.238]:37372 "EHLO mail.free-electrons.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754281AbcBBKlM (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Feb 2016 05:41:12 -0500 Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 11:41:11 +0100 From: Alexandre Belloni To: Joshua Clayton Cc: Alessandro Zummo , rtc-linux@googlegroups.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 7/8] rtc: implement a sysfs interface for clock offset Message-ID: <20160202104111.GU20165@piout.net> References: <0000-cover-letter.patch> <8361752a4e0c524e15cbed36d03eb3eb9b187815.1451929910.git.stillcompiling@gmail.com> <20160131114115.GJ20165@piout.net> <20160201125648.37475997@jclayton-pc> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160201125648.37475997@jclayton-pc> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 01/02/2016 at 12:56:48 -0800, Joshua Clayton wrote : > > I'm fine with having parts per billion as the unit and I hope we won't > > ever need anything more precise :) > > > It is orders of magnitude more than needed at present Yeah, until we get an RTC with an offset precision that has 4 decimals in ppm. > ...and no will ever need more than 640k of memory... right? Right :) -- Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com