Re: NTP time sync

David Brownell
2006-11-22T19:55:35Z

On Wednesday 22 November 2006 11:36 am, 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

Suggested time of removal: one year after two relevant software
package releases get updated:

- NTPD, to call hwclock specifying the relevant RTC;
- util-linux, updating hwclock to know about /dev/rtcN;
- busybox, with its own hwclock implementation.

The util-linux hwclock update is already in the queue, I'm told.

- Dave