From 6387e8e4581312c11d00c07821fb5d0ce35a862e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jo-Philipp Wich Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 17:03:24 +0000 Subject: ppp: annotate most patches with description and S-o-b SVN-Revision: 32463 --- package/ppp/patches/206-compensate_time_change.patch | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) (limited to 'package/ppp/patches/206-compensate_time_change.patch') 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 + --- a/pppd/main.c +++ b/pppd/main.c @@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ -- cgit v1.2.3