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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
