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SubjectRe: [PATCH] fix adjtimex() freq return error
Hi,

On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:29:06 -0700 john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> wrote:
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> > Martin Ziegler reported a bug in adjtimex(), where odd positive
> > frequencies are reduced by 1 while negative values are correct.

To put this in perspective one should also know that 1 here means an error
of 2^-16ppm or less than 0.02nsec.
When I wrote this code, I noticed that the rounding isn't perfect, but
OTOH the error is so small that it can't have any practical relevance.
AFAIC the old code is fine as is.

bye, Roman


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