Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Ulrich Windl" <> | Date | Mon, 23 Sep 1996 08:27:42 +0200 | Subject | (Fwd) Re: xntp3-5.85: Linux trouble |
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Dear kernel hackers,
I've been trying to streamline the Linux NTP support in the last months, but didn't dare to change too much. With the message attached, I suspect we should work on standardized NTP support for the kernel if we don't want to drop it completely. Especially the last sentence worries me...
Ulrich
------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 96 13:42:23 EDT From: Mills@huey.udel.edu To: Ulrich Windl <ulrich.windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de> Cc: Mills@huey.udel.edu, time@informatik.uni-erlangen.de Subject: Re: xntp3-5.85: Linux trouble
Ulrich,
I get about ten messages a day on some problem with NTP, some of them pretty green. Of those, eight are on Linux and of those four are on the darn timex.h problem. I've hollered and screamed for two years on this problem, but the Linux folk seem not to listen. It's real easy to fix, just use the current timex.h header file in the current kernel.tar.Z release, which has been stable for two years. My present course is to disable the kernel modifications, unless some interested soul cares to unravel the fine points. As it is, half the modifications (PPS support) don't work anyway with the broken structure definitions. The FreeBSD version works just fine. My marbles are on that system.
Dave
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