Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752028Ab2JILHv (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Oct 2012 07:07:51 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:59558 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751116Ab2JILHs (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Oct 2012 07:07:48 -0400 Message-ID: <507404F8.8000307@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 07:05:28 -0400 From: Prarit Bhargava User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110419 Red Hat/3.1.10-1.el6_0 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Stultz CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [PATCH] ntp, add debugfs entries for time_status and time_state References: <1349358521-4386-1-git-send-email-prarit@redhat.com> <50738248.7020603@us.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <50738248.7020603@us.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 722 Lines: 23 On 10/08/2012 09:47 PM, John Stultz wrote: > On 10/04/2012 06:48 AM, Prarit Bhargava wrote: >> Add debugfs entries for ntp time_status and time_state. These are useful >> for debugging ntp issues. > Aren't these easily fetched from adjtimex()? How does having them in debugfs help? > They are, however, there have been circumstances in the past when I've been monitoring things from kernel-side that I've found it useful to have them in debugfs. P. > thanks > -john > -- 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/