Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758110AbYGaTqt (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:46:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754831AbYGaTqj (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:46:39 -0400 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.232]:43517 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753380AbYGaTqh (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:46:37 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date :message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=i/k3SFYF7S1rZniPDT5tqCSpuolhwLy1nuIK2/3RrvVJM9FFafpd5TbOj7bhoquwm2 NMJVXvw5Bq2qM6KtogTTm8ynqHWWFzFOUNvLNhAc6MhLPoIXogxtVRktaYx16fz6MOhw N8+4cE+IedDlU4Mp4LTXQvsGvneliefRcYzSA= Subject: Re: [patch 0/4] [resend] Add configuration options to disable features From: Josh Boyer To: Ulrich Teichert Cc: Tim Bird , David Miller , dwmw2@infradead.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org, michael@free-electrons.com In-Reply-To: <200807311850.m6VIoqCE015883@arbas.nms.ulrich-teichert.org> References: <200807311850.m6VIoqCE015883@arbas.nms.ulrich-teichert.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:46:28 -0400 Message-Id: <1217533588.2328.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 (2.22.3.1-1.fc9) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1091 Lines: 31 On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 20:50 +0200, Ulrich Teichert wrote: > Hi, > > >I don't know of any embedded products that ship with NTP turned > >on. > > Well, I do. To be exact, I've developed parts of it. But it's numbers > are only into the thousands, so that makes it insignificant ;-) > > >It's best to assume, with embedded, that we're not shipping > >ANY of the desktop or server applications you are familiar with. > >Absent those, does something break in the kernel with multicast > >support when IGMP is turned off? > > I do not think of NTP as desktop or server application, but that's > probably just me, No, it's not just you. NTP is useful in cases where things do care about time but hardware designers were too cheap to put an RTC on the board. I will admit that it's use in embedded products is probably very limited though. josh -- 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/