From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NTP: Let update_persistent_clock() sleep
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 20:06:57 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0806091950360.6791@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080528201612.d2641dc3.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Hi,
On Wed, 28 May 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > I am not sure who actually claims maintenance of kernel/time/ntp.c, but
> > it looks, Thomas, you seem to be our current time overseer -- could you
> > please speak out on this change? I'd like this change to get applied
> > somewhere reasonable -- is it -mm?
>
> Roman does most of the NTP work afaik. I consider Thomas's git-hrt
> tree to be the route via which NTP changes get into linux-next and
> mainline.
That function is a little misplaced, we already have a driver/rtc dir,
where this should go in the long term and ntp.c only providing the
trigger, that time is stable. There it would also be possible to better
take into account any quirks needed to update the chip.
bye, Roman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-09 18:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-28 18:15 Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-05-28 19:17 ` Rik van Riel
2008-05-29 3:16 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-29 17:34 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-06-09 18:06 ` Roman Zippel [this message]
2008-06-09 18:18 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-06-09 21:59 ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-09 22:04 ` Alessandro Zummo
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