RE: NTP time sync

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> [mailto:linuxppc-dev-bounces+joakim.tjernlund=transmode.se@ozl
> abs.org] On Behalf Of David Brownell
> Sent: den 26 november 2006 00:22
> To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> Cc: [email protected]; Alessandro Zummo; [email protected]; 
> [email protected]; Linux Kernel Mailing List; 
> [email protected]; Andi Kleen; [email protected]; 
> [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: NTP time sync
> 
> On Thursday 23 November 2006 3:00 am, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > 
> > Couldn't we have a transition period by making the kernel 
> not rely on
> > interrupts ? if the NTP irq code just triggers a work 
> queue, then all of
> > a sudden, all of the RTC drivers can be used and the 
> latency is small.
> > That might well be a good enough solution and is very simple.
> 
> Good point.  Of course, one issue is that the NTP sync code all
> seems to be platform-specific right now ... just like the code
> to set the system time from an RTC at boot (except for the new
> RTC framework stuff) and after resume.
> 
> - Dave

Looking at rtc-dev.c I don't see a MARJOR number assigned to /dev/rtcN. Seems like
it is dynamically allocated to whatever major number that is free.
Is that the way it is supposed to be? How do I create a static /dev/rtcN in my /dev
directory if the major number isn't fixed?
Maybe I am just missing something, feel free to correct me :)

 Jocke

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