Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756723AbWKVTgi (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Nov 2006 14:36:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756727AbWKVTgi (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Nov 2006 14:36:38 -0500 Received: from mx0.towertech.it ([213.215.222.73]:46735 "HELO mx0.towertech.it") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1756723AbWKVTgh (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Nov 2006 14:36:37 -0500 Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 20:36:33 +0100 From: Alessandro Zummo To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Cc: David Brownell , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Kumar Gala , Kim Phillips , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Andi Kleen , akpm@osdl.org, davem@davemloft.net, kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp, lethal@linux-sh.org, paulus@samba.org, ralf@linux-mips.org, rmk@arm.linux.org.uk Subject: NTP time sync Message-ID: <20061122203633.611acaa8@inspiron> Organization: Tower Technologies X-Mailer: Sylpheed Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 677 Lines: 29 wrto the in-kernel NTP synchronization, as discussed before [1], my opinion is that it should be done in userland. Keeping it in kernel implies subtle code in each of the supported architectures. So, if the arch maintainers agree, I would suggest to schedule it for removal. [1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/3/28/358 -- Best regards, Alessandro Zummo, Tower Technologies - Turin, Italy http://www.towertech.it - 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/