From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759131AbYHATQe (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:16:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757381AbYHATQO (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:16:14 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:43590 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757240AbYHATQM (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:16:12 -0400 Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 12:15:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Josh Boyer cc: Ulrich Teichert , Tim Bird , David Miller , dwmw2@infradead.org, thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org, michael@free-electrons.com Subject: Re: [patch 0/4] [resend] Add configuration options to disable features In-Reply-To: <1217533588.2328.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: References: <200807311850.m6VIoqCE015883@arbas.nms.ulrich-teichert.org> <1217533588.2328.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 20:50 +0200, Ulrich Teichert wrote: > > > > I do not think of NTP as desktop or server application, but that's > > probably just me, > > No, it's not just you. NTP is useful in cases where things do care > about time but hardware designers were too cheap to put an RTC on the > board. In fact, didn't one of the netgear firewall/switch/routers end up being famous for overloading some NTP service exactly because all the _millions_ of routers ended up using the same (incorrect) NTP host? So NTP is very definitely an embedded thing too. Linus