Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751322AbVLEIAw (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Dec 2005 03:00:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751345AbVLEIAw (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Dec 2005 03:00:52 -0500 Received: from rrzmta2.rz.uni-regensburg.de ([132.199.1.17]:36488 "EHLO rrzmta2.rz.uni-regensburg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751322AbVLEIAv (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Dec 2005 03:00:51 -0500 From: "Ulrich Windl" Organization: Universitaet Regensburg, Klinikum To: george@mvista.com Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 08:59:57 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/13] Time: Reduced NTP Rework (part 2) Cc: lkml , Ingo Molnar , Darren Hart , Nishanth Aravamudan , Frank Sorenson , Roman Zippel , Ulrich Windl , Thomas Gleixner Message-ID: <4394018D.19764.2440ED5D@Ulrich.Windl.rkdvmks1.ngate.uni-regensburg.de> In-reply-to: <4390E48E.4020005@mvista.com> References: <20051202032604.19357.59425.sendpatchset@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.30 public beta 1) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-Content-Conformance: HerringScan-0.25/Sophos-P=3.98.0+V=3.98+U=2.07.112+R=03 October 2005+T=112929@20051205.074535Z Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1373 Lines: 32 On 2 Dec 2005 at 16:19, George Anzinger wrote: > john stultz wrote: > > All, > > Here is the second of two patches which try to minimize my ntp rework > > patches. > > > > This patch further changes the interrupt time NTP code, breaking out the > > leapsecond processing and introduces an accessor to a shifted ppm > > In a discusson aroung the leapsecond and how to disable it (some folks > don't want the time jump) it came to light that, for the most part, > this is unused code. It requires that time be kept in UST to be > useful and, from what I can tell, most folks keep time in their local > timezone, thus, effectively, disableing the usage of the leapsecond > correction (ntp figures this out and just says "no"). Possibly it is > time to ask if we should keep this in the kernel at all. I think this is not a question at all whether people like leap seconds or not: Either they want to have the current official time, or they do not. If they do not, they won't care about NTP; if they do they'd use it. If they don't like leap seconds, they'd go into politics to forbid them by law. Regards, Ulrich - 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/