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| author | Jo-Philipp Wich <jow@openwrt.org> | 2012-06-19 17:03:24 +0000 |
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| committer | Jo-Philipp Wich <jow@openwrt.org> | 2012-06-19 17:03:24 +0000 |
| commit | 6387e8e4581312c11d00c07821fb5d0ce35a862e (patch) | |
| tree | a793cc6fe8062d296696ecad4ae9511b741667e4 /package/ppp/patches/206-compensate_time_change.patch | |
| parent | f4afa00862b7db8a2da8c012843a286716c0a534 (diff) | |
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ppp: annotate most patches with description and S-o-b
SVN-Revision: 32463
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diff --git a/package/ppp/patches/206-compensate_time_change.patch b/package/ppp/patches/206-compensate_time_change.patch index 041ae1f86f..fb6c65679e 100644 --- a/package/ppp/patches/206-compensate_time_change.patch +++ b/package/ppp/patches/206-compensate_time_change.patch @@ -1,3 +1,16 @@ +pppd: Watch out for time warps + +On many embedded systems there is no battery backed RTC and a proper system +time only becomes available through NTP after establishing a connection. + +When the clock suddenly jumps forward, the internal accounting (connect time) +is confused resulting in unreliable data. + +This patch implements periodic clock checking to look for time warps, if one +is detected, the internal counters are adjusted accordingly. + +Signed-off-by: Jo-Philipp Wich <jow@openwrt.org> + --- a/pppd/main.c +++ b/pppd/main.c @@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ |