From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
To: Ulrich Teichert <krypton@ulrich-teichert.org>
Cc: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
dwmw2@infradead.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org,
michael@free-electrons.com
Subject: Re: [patch 0/4] [resend] Add configuration options to disable features
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:46:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1217533588.2328.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200807311850.m6VIoqCE015883@arbas.nms.ulrich-teichert.org>
On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 20:50 +0200, Ulrich Teichert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> >I don't know of any embedded products that ship with NTP turned
> >on.
>
> Well, I do. To be exact, I've developed parts of it. But it's numbers
> are only into the thousands, so that makes it insignificant ;-)
>
> >It's best to assume, with embedded, that we're not shipping
> >ANY of the desktop or server applications you are familiar with.
> >Absent those, does something break in the kernel with multicast
> >support when IGMP is turned off?
>
> I do not think of NTP as desktop or server application, but that's
> probably just me,
No, it's not just you. NTP is useful in cases where things do care
about time but hardware designers were too cheap to put an RTC on the
board.
I will admit that it's use in embedded products is probably very limited
though.
josh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-31 19:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-31 9:27 [patch 0/4] [resend] Add configuration options to disable features not needed on embedded devices Thomas Petazzoni
2008-07-31 9:27 ` [patch 1/4] Configure out AIO support Thomas Petazzoni
2008-07-31 10:09 ` Bernhard Fischer
2008-07-31 10:12 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-07-31 22:42 ` Bernhard Fischer
2008-08-05 18:15 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-08-05 18:26 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-08-05 18:36 ` Bernhard Fischer
2008-07-31 9:27 ` [patch 2/4] Configure out file locking features Thomas Petazzoni
2008-07-31 13:53 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-07-31 14:20 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2008-07-31 15:37 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-07-31 16:26 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2008-07-31 16:49 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-07-31 16:57 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-31 17:32 ` Tim Bird
2008-07-31 18:12 ` Robert Schwebel
2008-07-31 19:31 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-08-01 7:28 ` Robert Schwebel
2008-07-31 19:16 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-07-31 20:37 ` Tim Bird
2008-08-02 16:38 ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-08-04 13:52 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2008-08-04 18:16 ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-08-04 18:24 ` Tim Bird
2008-08-04 18:25 ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-08-04 18:54 ` Matt Mackall
2008-08-04 19:42 ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-08-04 22:32 ` Tim Bird
2008-08-06 13:12 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2008-08-07 22:55 ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-07-31 9:27 ` [patch 3/4] Configure out ethtool support Thomas Petazzoni
2008-07-31 10:40 ` Ben Hutchings
2008-07-31 10:49 ` David Miller
2008-07-31 10:54 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-31 10:57 ` David Miller
2008-07-31 10:42 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-31 10:51 ` David Miller
2008-07-31 11:29 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-31 11:33 ` David Miller
2008-07-31 11:46 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-31 11:50 ` David Miller
2008-07-31 15:58 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-07-31 16:35 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2008-07-31 9:27 ` [patch 4/4] Configure out IGMP support Thomas Petazzoni
2008-08-01 19:41 ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-04 12:48 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2008-08-04 12:53 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-08-04 13:53 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-31 9:40 ` [patch 0/4] [resend] Add configuration options to disable features not needed on embedded devices David Miller
2008-07-31 9:51 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-31 9:55 ` David Miller
2008-07-31 9:59 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-31 10:02 ` David Miller
2008-07-31 10:15 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-31 10:25 ` David Miller
2008-07-31 17:59 ` Tim Bird
2008-07-31 18:50 ` [patch 0/4] [resend] Add configuration options to disable features Ulrich Teichert
2008-07-31 19:46 ` Josh Boyer [this message]
2008-07-31 19:55 ` David Woodhouse
2008-08-01 7:17 ` Robert Schwebel
2008-08-01 19:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-01 19:47 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-31 16:42 ` [patch 0/4] [resend] Add configuration options to disable features not needed on embedded devices Tim Bird
2008-07-31 17:20 ` Tim Bird
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