Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751993AbaJUI0G (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2014 04:26:06 -0400 Received: from www.linutronix.de ([62.245.132.108]:57565 "EHLO Galois.linutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750964AbaJUI0B (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2014 04:26:01 -0400 Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 10:25:57 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Thomas Shao cc: Jeff Epler , "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" , LKML , "devel@linuxdriverproject.org" , "olaf@aepfle.de" , "apw@canonical.com" , "jasowang@redhat.com" , KY Srinivasan , John Stultz , Richard Cochran Subject: RE: [PATCH v2 1/2] timekeeping: add EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for do_adjtimex() In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1413362372-16236-1-git-send-email-huishao@microsoft.com> <20141021040212.GA6278@unpythonic.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (DEB 23 2013-08-11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Linutronix-Spam-Score: -1.0 X-Linutronix-Spam-Level: - X-Linutronix-Spam-Status: No , -1.0 points, 5.0 required, ALL_TRUSTED=-1,SHORTCIRCUIT=-0.0001 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 21 Oct 2014, Thomas Shao wrote: > I'm also thinking if NTPd could expose some interface to allow other > application to directly provide time source for it to consume. In my > opinion, emulating the ntp source should be very hard and error > prone. Well, if done right it would be pretty precise. At least way better than the random number you feed into do_adjtimex(). Thanks, tglx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/