From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751210AbWHJT3N (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:29:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751240AbWHJT3N (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:29:13 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:32421 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751210AbWHJT3N (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:29:13 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 12:29:05 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Roman Zippel Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, john stultz Subject: Re: [NTP 8/9] convert to the NTP4 reference model Message-Id: <20060810122905.b8dd7104.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20060810000146.913645000@linux-m68k.org> <20060810001115.525351000@linux-m68k.org> <20060810114903.089825bc.akpm@osdl.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 21:14:00 +0200 (CEST) Roman Zippel 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.