On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:12:54 -0800
David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> wrote:

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> > > 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.
> 
> Then the kernel/time/ntp.c stuff should be removed on all systems?

 I'd say yes, but I think that would be dangerous to my own life :)

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 Best regards,

 Alessandro Zummo,
  Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy

  http://www.towertech.it

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