Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756871AbWKVUX7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Nov 2006 15:23:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756906AbWKVUX7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Nov 2006 15:23:59 -0500 Received: from mx0.towertech.it ([213.215.222.73]:49289 "HELO mx0.towertech.it") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1756871AbWKVUX6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Nov 2006 15:23:58 -0500 Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:23:55 +0100 From: Alessandro Zummo To: David Brownell Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , 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, mills@udel.edu, hackers@lists.ntp.isc.org Subject: Re: NTP time sync Message-ID: <20061122212355.046de470@inspiron> In-Reply-To: <200611221155.26686.david-b@pacbell.net> References: <20061122203633.611acaa8@inspiron> <200611221155.26686.david-b@pacbell.net> 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: 1091 Lines: 40 On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:55:23 -0800 David Brownell wrote: > > > > So, if the arch maintainers agree, > > I would suggest to schedule it for removal. > > > > [1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/3/28/358 > > Suggested time of removal: one year after two relevant software > package releases get updated: > > - NTPD, to call hwclock specifying the relevant RTC; This might introduce delays. ntpd might open the device and update the time itself. > - util-linux, updating hwclock to know about /dev/rtcN; > - busybox, with its own hwclock implementation. > > The util-linux hwclock update is already in the queue, I'm told. I suspect nobody would change NTPD if we don't schedule that feature for removal :) -- 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/