Re: [PATCH] ntp: Allow TAI-UTC offset to be set to zero

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Thu Apr 18 2019 - 05:10:24 EST


On Thu, 18 Apr 2019, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 11:00:23AM +0200, Ondrej Mosnacek wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 10:48 AM Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Change the ADJ_TAI check to accept zero as a valid TAI-UTC offset in
> > > order to allow setting it back to the initial value.
>
> > Thanks for sending the patch! Maybe you (or the committer) could
> > consider adding:
> >
> > Fixes: 153b5d054ac2 ("ntp: support for TAI")
>
> To me the change looks more like an extension of the API, rather than
> a bug fix, so I'd leave that up to the committer.

I don't see why we need to backport that all the way, but I'm happy to add
the tag if there is some really good reason.

Thanks,

tglx