RE: [PATCH v2 1/2] timekeeping: add EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for do_adjtimex()

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Tue Oct 21 2014 - 04:26:10 EST


On Tue, 21 Oct 2014, Thomas Shao wrote:

> I'm also thinking if NTPd could expose some interface to allow other
> application to directly provide time source for it to consume. In my
> opinion, emulating the ntp source should be very hard and error
> prone.

Well, if done right it would be pretty precise. At least way better
than the random number you feed into do_adjtimex().

Thanks,

tglx

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