Re: [PATCH] NTP: Let update_persistent_clock() sleep

[Roman Zippel]

Hi,

On Wed, 28 May 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:

> >  I am not sure who actually claims maintenance of kernel/time/ntp.c, but
> > it looks, Thomas, you seem to be our current time overseer -- could you
> > please speak out on this change?  I'd like this change to get applied
> > somewhere reasonable -- is it -mm?
> 
> Roman does most of the NTP work afaik.  I consider Thomas's git-hrt
> tree to be the route via which NTP changes get into linux-next and
> mainline.

That function is a little misplaced, we already have a driver/rtc dir, 
where this should go in the long term and ntp.c only providing the 
trigger, that time is stable. There it would also be possible to better 
take into account any quirks needed to update the chip.

bye, Roman
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