[oe] [OE-devel] [PATCH] ntp: Resolve some abnormal behaviors

[Paul Eggleton]

Hi Stephen,

On Friday 28 February 2014 20:33:55 Stephen Arnold wrote:
> Lastly, what about using pool.ntp.org as the default server for both ntpd
> and ntpdate?  That way everything works out of the box (as long as there's
> a net connection) and users can customize from there.  I have a bbappend
> for ntp right now, so maybe I should look at the default config again...

That would be nice, but since you can't actually distribute a product that 
connects to the main pool.ntp.org server (you need to register your own NTP 
pool [1]) we've elected not to set any default so that you are encouraged to 
do the right thing and explicitly set your own.

Cheers,
Paul

[1] http://www.pool.ntp.org/en/vendors.html#basic-guidelines

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre