Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 11:35:57 +0100 (CET)
From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
To: George Anzinger <george@mvista.com>
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       Frank Sorenson <frank@tuxrocks.com>,
       Ulrich Windl <ulrich.windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>,
       Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/13] Time: Reduced NTP Rework (part 2)
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Hi,

On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, George Anzinger wrote:

> 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'm thinking about moving the leap second handling to a timer, with the 
new timer system it would be easy to set a timer for e.g. 23:59.59 and 
then set the time. This way it would be gone from the common path and it 
wouldn't matter that much anymore whether it's used or not.

bye, Roman
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