From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Alessandro Zummo <alessandro.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
ralf@linux-mips.org, David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, lethal@linux-sh.org, paulus@samba.org,
davem@davemloft.net, kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp
Subject: Re: NTP time sync
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 19:51:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061122195153.GC22601@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061122203633.611acaa8@inspiron>
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 08:36:33PM +0100, Alessandro Zummo wrote:
>
>
> wrto the in-kernel NTP synchronization,
> as discussed before [1], my opinion
> is that it should be done in userland.
>
> Keeping it in kernel implies subtle code
> in each of the supported architectures.
>
> So, if the arch maintainers agree,
> I would suggest to schedule it for removal.
>
> [1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/3/28/358
Fine, provided there's also a shell tool that can enquire whether the
kernel is sync'd or not. (Currently the 11-minute update does not
occur when the kernel is desynced from a time source - the RTC itself
might be more accurate in this case.)
Throwing hwclock commands into crontab such that they do not take
note of the kernel's sync status is probably a very bad move in that
respect.
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of:
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-22 19:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-22 19:36 NTP time sync Alessandro Zummo
2006-11-22 19:51 ` Russell King [this message]
2006-11-22 20:26 ` Alessandro Zummo
2006-11-22 19:55 ` David Brownell
2006-11-22 20:23 ` Alessandro Zummo
2006-11-23 1:48 ` Gabriel Paubert
2006-11-23 10:54 ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-23 11:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-11-25 23:22 ` David Brownell
2006-11-26 11:04 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2006-11-26 19:21 ` Alessandro Zummo
2006-11-26 21:37 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2006-11-26 22:53 ` Alessandro Zummo
2006-11-27 1:21 ` [Bulk] " David Brownell
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