linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] time: Make NTP optionnal

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Message-ID: <20171120163911.628daa14@alans-desktop>
Date:   Mon, 20 Nov 2017 16:39:11 +0000
From:   Alan Cox <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:     Romain Perier <romain.perier@...il.com>
Cc:     peter enderborg <peter.enderborg@...y.com>,
        John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] time: Make NTP optionnal

On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:29:53 +0100
Romain Perier <romain.perier@...il.com> wrote:

> So even if the correspondong syscall are disabled and the
> corresponding clocks too, you should return an -ENOSYS from the
> do_adjtimex helper, in case that another component tries to use it in
> the kernel, right ?

Probably - but you need to trace those callers and check.

Alan