linux-kernel - Re: [patch 0/4] [resend] Add configuration options to disable features

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0808011212430.3277@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Fri, 1 Aug 2008 12:15:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...il.com>
cc:	Ulrich Teichert <krypton@...ich-teichert.org>,
	Tim Bird <tim.bird@...sony.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, dwmw2@...radead.org,
	thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-embedded@...r.kernel.org, michael@...e-electrons.com
Subject: Re: [patch 0/4] [resend] Add configuration options to disable
 features



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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