Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Aug 2008 12:15:15 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [patch 0/4] [resend] Add configuration options to disable features |
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On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 20:50 +0200, Ulrich Teichert wrote: > > > > I do not think of NTP as desktop or server application, but that's > > probably just me, > > No, it's not just you. NTP is useful in cases where things do care > about time but hardware designers were too cheap to put an RTC on the > board.
In fact, didn't one of the netgear firewall/switch/routers end up being famous for overloading some NTP service exactly because all the _millions_ of routers ended up using the same (incorrect) NTP host?
So NTP is very definitely an embedded thing too.
Linus
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