From: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
To: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ntp, add debugfs entries for time_status and time_state
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 07:05:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <507404F8.8000307@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50738248.7020603@us.ibm.com>
On 10/08/2012 09:47 PM, John Stultz wrote:
> On 10/04/2012 06:48 AM, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
>> Add debugfs entries for ntp time_status and time_state. These are useful
>> for debugging ntp issues.
> Aren't these easily fetched from adjtimex()? How does having them in debugfs help?
>
They are, however, there have been circumstances in the past when I've been
monitoring things from kernel-side that I've found it useful to have them in
debugfs.
P.
> thanks
> -john
>
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2012-10-04 13:48 [PATCH] ntp, add debugfs entries for time_status and time_state Prarit Bhargava
2012-10-09 1:47 ` John Stultz
2012-10-09 11:05 ` Prarit Bhargava [this message]
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