Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 10 Aug 2006 12:29:05 -0700 | | From | Andrew Morton <> | | Subject | Re: [NTP 8/9] convert to the NTP4 reference model |
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On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 21:14:00 +0200 (CEST) Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> Hi, > > On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > This converts the kernel ntp model into a model which matches the > > > nanokernel reference implementations. > > > > For the ntp ignorami amongst us... what is a "nanokernel reference > > implementation" and why do we want one? > > It's the behaviour the current ntp daemon expects, the ntp documentation > has more information and a link to the package (e.g. under Debian at > /usr/share/doc/ntp-doc/html/kern.html). >
So... the current kernel is behaving in a manner other than that which the NTP daemon expects? Does this cause any problems?
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