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From: Alessandro Zummo <alessandro.zummo@towertech.it>
To: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
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,
	hackers@lists.ntp.isc.org, davem@davemloft.net,
	kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp, mills@udel.edu
Subject: Re: NTP time sync
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:26:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061122212621.433593a2@inspiron> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061122195153.GC22601@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>

On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 19:51:53 +0000
Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:

> >  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.

 I agree. I would like to coordinate this effort together with
 the ntp folks so that we can find a viable solution.

-- 

 Best regards,

 Alessandro Zummo,
  Tower Technologies - Turin, Italy

  http://www.towertech.it

  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-22 20:26 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
2006-11-22 20:26   ` Alessandro Zummo [this message]
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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