Re: [PATCH] time: Make NTP optionnal

On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 16:22:06 +0100
peter enderborg [off-list ref] wrote:

On 11/20/2017 04:00 PM, Romain Perier wrote:

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Hi,

2017-11-20 15:10 GMT+01:00 peter enderborg [off-list ref]:  

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I think it should return a error code at least.  

In which case ? The idea was to don't change the behaviour of these
functions (from the "API" point of view) and to avoid regressions in
the kernel components that depend on these NTP feature.
(so be transparent the most as possible)

Thanks,
Romain
 

do_adjtimex should return -ENOSYS in my opinion, however it is not in the manual
that it can return ENOSYS. 

The standards specifications state what must be returned for certain
error cases, they don't forbid other errors being added.

Old old Linx will of course already return -1,ENOSYS to this call.

Alan