On Monday 04 October 2010 08:25, Jean-Christophe Dubois wrote: > le lundi 4 octobre 2010 Denys Vlasenko a écrit > > On Sunday 03 October 2010 18:24, Jean-Christophe DUBOIS wrote: > > > Allow busybox to act as a stratum 1 server if no peer is > > > specified on the command line. > > > > > > This allow busybox to act as a time reference in an isolated > > > network where it is not possible to reach a real stratum > > > server through the IP network. > > > > > > For this feature to work correctly the busybox system needs > > > to be synchronized to a real time source through other means > > > like for example a GPS device. > > > > Why do you want this to be a config option? It can be just > > a permanently enabled feature, right? > > Well I was not sure everybody would: > - agree with the feature (is it right to claim by default you are a stratum > 1?)
No one forces them to run ntpd witl -l but without -p PEER. If someone wants different default stratum, they will say so on ml, and maybe an option to set it will be added. > - need the feature > - happy with the small code it is adding > > So making it optional was allowing people to add the feature only if they > needed it. Since the amount of code is really small - 26 bytes, I think config option for it is not necessary. -- vda _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
