Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751000AbWHTROb (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Aug 2006 13:14:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751001AbWHTROb (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Aug 2006 13:14:31 -0400 Received: from scrub.xs4all.nl ([194.109.195.176]:26603 "EHLO scrub.xs4all.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750995AbWHTROa (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Aug 2006 13:14:30 -0400 Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 19:14:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Roman Zippel X-X-Sender: roman@scrub.home To: john stultz cc: Jesse Barnes , Ulrich Windl , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Udo van den Heuvel Subject: Re: Linux time code In-Reply-To: <1155855768.31755.138.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> Message-ID: References: <44E32B23.16949.BBB1EC4@Ulrich.Windl.rkdvmks1.ngate.uni-regensburg.de> <200608171512.00417.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> <1155853964.31755.131.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> <200608171550.31097.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> <1155855768.31755.138.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 600 Lines: 18 Hi, On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, john stultz wrote: > > Hm, I guess that's ok for most of the timestamp applications I'm aware of > > as long as NTP won't cause the clock to stand still... > > Nope. Its limited to a +/-500ppm adjustment max. This is only frequency adjustment, time adjustment is added as well which can be much larger than this. bye, Roman - 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/