This is nothing new. I suspect the problem is that the NTP people
themselves use BSD, and thus they were never very interested in supporting
Linux in the first place. So it's not a "fallen from grace" thing, it's a
"that's how it has been".
And the problem has led to me sometimes getting conflicting patches for
the kernel side, which in turn hasn't really helped - I have no idea
_which_ patch to trust, so usually it has been either random choice or me
ignoring all patches simply because I have no way to make a semi-
intelligent choice.
What we need is simply some Linux person who knows and cares about NTP,
nothing more. It's unrealistic to assume that BSD people could maintain
ntpd with Linux support without anybody in the Linux camp being willing to
stand up for the Linux part.
So while there probably is some amount of BSD bigotry there, I can
certainly also understand why they don't like to support Linux.
Linus
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