Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753683AbYABSGN (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jan 2008 13:06:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751458AbYABSF7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jan 2008 13:05:59 -0500 Received: from mx0.towertech.it ([213.215.222.73]:59317 "HELO mx0.towertech.it" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751332AbYABSF6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jan 2008 13:05:58 -0500 Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 19:05:37 +0100 From: Alessandro Zummo To: David Brownell Cc: mingo@elte.hu, kay.sievers@vrfy.org, stern@rowland.harvard.edu, rjw@sisk.pl, pavel@suse.cz, linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, lenb@kernel.org, gregkh@suse.de, akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] PM: Do not destroy/create devices while suspended (rev. 2) Message-ID: <20080102190537.2fc735fe@i1501.lan.towertech.it> In-Reply-To: <20080102175400.3C2E0EF588@adsl-69-226-248-13.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net> References: <200801020032.45529.rjw@sisk.pl> <20080102105217.GA14731@elte.hu> <200801021356.59865.rjw@sisk.pl> <20080102131529.GA32160@elte.hu> <3ae72650801020655h6ec31ce8n5cd9014c00c9f6ad@mail.gmail.com> <20080102160137.GA21046@elte.hu> <20080102175400.3C2E0EF588@adsl-69-226-248-13.dsl.pltn13.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 List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 799 Lines: 25 On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 09:54:00 -0800 David Bro > It'd need to have some NTP sync solution for RTC_LIB devices, but > ISTR the gentime stuff still assumes an update_persistent_clock() > that doesn't sleep ... and hence can't be used with I2C based RTCs. I still believe NTP sync stuff should be done outside of the kernel. given the mean accuracy of RTC chips and other sync factors, imho you haven't so much to gain with an in-kernel sync code. -- Best regards, Alessandro Zummo, Tower Technologies - Torino, 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/