From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [NTP 8/9] convert to the NTP4 reference model
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 12:29:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060810122905.b8dd7104.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0608102106180.6761@scrub.home>
On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 21:14:00 +0200 (CEST)
Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > > This converts the kernel ntp model into a model which matches the
> > > nanokernel reference implementations.
> >
> > For the ntp ignorami amongst us... what is a "nanokernel reference
> > implementation" and why do we want one?
>
> It's the behaviour the current ntp daemon expects, the ntp documentation
> has more information and a link to the package (e.g. under Debian at
> /usr/share/doc/ntp-doc/html/kern.html).
>
So... the current kernel is behaving in a manner other than that which the
NTP daemon expects? Does this cause any problems?
I'm trying to work out what reason we might have for merging this patch.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-10 19:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-10 0:01 [NTP 0/9] NTP patches zippel
2006-08-10 0:01 ` [NTP 1/9] add ntp_update_frequency zippel
2006-08-10 0:01 ` [NTP 2/9] add time_adj to tick length zippel
2006-08-10 0:01 ` [NTP 3/9] add time_freq " zippel
2006-08-10 0:01 ` [NTP 4/9] prescale time_offset zippel
2006-08-10 0:01 ` [NTP 5/9] add time_adjust to tick length zippel
2006-08-20 15:33 ` Atsushi Nemoto
2006-08-20 17:25 ` Roman Zippel
2006-08-10 0:01 ` [NTP 6/9] remove time_tolerance zippel
2006-08-10 0:01 ` [NTP 7/9] convert time_freq to nsec value zippel
2006-08-10 0:01 ` [NTP 8/9] convert to the NTP4 reference model zippel
2006-08-10 18:49 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-10 19:14 ` Roman Zippel
2006-08-10 19:29 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-08-10 19:59 ` Roman Zippel
2006-08-10 0:01 ` [NTP 9/9] cleanup defines and comments zippel
2006-08-16 23:07 ` [NTP 0/9] NTP patches john stultz
2006-08-17 10:32 ` Roman Zippel
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-08-10 20:31 [NTP 8/9] convert to the NTP4 reference model linux
2006-08-17 11:01 ` Roman Zippel
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