From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [patch 0/4] [resend] Add configuration options to disable features Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 12:15:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <200807311850.m6VIoqCE015883@arbas.nms.ulrich-teichert.org> <1217533588.2328.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1217533588.2328.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Josh Boyer Cc: Ulrich Teichert , Tim Bird , David Miller , dwmw2@infradead.org, thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org, michael@free-electrons.com On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 20:50 +0200, Ulrich Teichert wrote: > > > > 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. In fact, didn't one of the netgear firewall/switch/routers end up being famous for overloading some NTP service exactly because all the _millions_ of routers ended up using the same (incorrect) NTP host? So NTP is very definitely an embedded thing too. Linus