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
next prev parent 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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