Re: [patch 0/4] [resend] Add configuration options to disablefeatures

[Linus Torvalds]

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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