[ntp:hackers] Simplifying NTPD

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Fri Jun 27 15:40:52 UTC 2014


In message <53AD8F06.3000100 at tmsw.no>, Terje Mathisen writes:

>Do you follow the work ESR is doing over in gpsd?
>
>He seems to have exactly the same target for refclocks, i.e. they belong 
>inside gpsd which has years of accumulated experience in handling lots & 
>lots of (more or less) gps-based references, and ntpd should get the 
>steering information from gpsd.

I disagree and agree.

NTPD needs to keep an refclock interface that can work with stuff
which is not GPS or even GNSS based.

That said, it would be trivial to write a refclock which talks
to gpsd.

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