From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932219AbWHJUC0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:02:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932648AbWHJUBv (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:01:51 -0400 Received: from scrub.xs4all.nl ([194.109.195.176]:24977 "EHLO scrub.xs4all.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932669AbWHJT7f (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:59:35 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 21:59:29 +0200 (CEST) From: Roman Zippel X-X-Sender: roman@scrub.home To: Andrew Morton cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, john stultz Subject: Re: [NTP 8/9] convert to the NTP4 reference model In-Reply-To: <20060810122905.b8dd7104.akpm@osdl.org> Message-ID: References: <20060810000146.913645000@linux-m68k.org> <20060810001115.525351000@linux-m68k.org> <20060810114903.089825bc.akpm@osdl.org> <20060810122905.b8dd7104.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: > > 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? It's not drastically different, so for normal internet usage there is no big difference. http://www.ntp.org/ntpfaq/NTP-s-compat.htm has a bit more information on this topic. > I'm trying to work out what reason we might have for merging this patch. It also allows us to sanely readd the PPS bits, where the changes were more significant. bye, Roman