Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:02:23 +0200 (CEST) | From | Roman Zippel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fix adjtimex() freq return error |
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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: > > > 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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