On Thursday 23 November 2006 3:00 am, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > Couldn't we have a transition period by making the kernel not rely on > interrupts ? if the NTP irq code just triggers a work queue, then all of > a sudden, all of the RTC drivers can be used and the latency is small. > That might well be a good enough solution and is very simple.
Good point. Of course, one issue is that the NTP sync code all seems to be platform-specific right now ... just like the code to set the system time from an RTC at boot (except for the new RTC framework stuff) and after resume. - Dave - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
