Re: [PATCH] Re: boot time, process start time, and NOW time

[Tim Schmielau]

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, john stultz wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 16:00, Tim Schmielau wrote:
> > George, please excuse my lack of understanding. What again where the
> > precise reasons to have an ntp-corrected uptime?
> 
> Ah, here's the thread with the first mention of it that I could find.
> 
> http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0306.1/1471.html

Ah, it seems George indeed did the patch because of these problems:

  http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0306.1/1641.html

However, the actual reason were just missing wall_to_monotonic 
initializations:

  http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0306.2/1330.html

This was fixed in mainline:

  http://linus.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/cset%403f0e60dcpIosK3b5_uJ-aD9Mare17w

Tim
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