From: Tom Rini The following problem was found by Giovambattista Pulcini , who also provided a partial patch, and this has been verified by our time guru Gabriel Paubert . The problem is that in do_settimeofday() we always set time_state to TIME_ERROR and except on two platforms, never re-set it. This meant that ntp_gettime() and ntp_adjtime() always returned TIME_ERROR, incorrectly. Based on Gabriel's analysis, time_state is used for leap-second processing, and ppc shouldn't be mucking with it. From: Giovambattista Pulcini Signed-off-by: Tom Rini Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- 25-akpm/arch/ppc/kernel/time.c | 1 - 25-akpm/arch/ppc/platforms/chrp_time.c | 2 -- 25-akpm/arch/ppc/platforms/gemini_setup.c | 3 --- 3 files changed, 6 deletions(-) diff -puN arch/ppc/kernel/time.c~ppc32-fix-a-problem-with-ntp-on-chrpgemini arch/ppc/kernel/time.c --- 25/arch/ppc/kernel/time.c~ppc32-fix-a-problem-with-ntp-on-chrpgemini Fri Apr 8 16:38:57 2005 +++ 25-akpm/arch/ppc/kernel/time.c Fri Apr 8 16:38:57 2005 @@ -272,7 +272,6 @@ int do_settimeofday(struct timespec *tv) time_adjust = 0; /* stop active adjtime() */ time_status |= STA_UNSYNC; - time_state = TIME_ERROR; /* p. 24, (a) */ time_maxerror = NTP_PHASE_LIMIT; time_esterror = NTP_PHASE_LIMIT; write_sequnlock_irqrestore(&xtime_lock, flags); diff -puN arch/ppc/platforms/chrp_time.c~ppc32-fix-a-problem-with-ntp-on-chrpgemini arch/ppc/platforms/chrp_time.c --- 25/arch/ppc/platforms/chrp_time.c~ppc32-fix-a-problem-with-ntp-on-chrpgemini Fri Apr 8 16:38:57 2005 +++ 25-akpm/arch/ppc/platforms/chrp_time.c Fri Apr 8 16:38:57 2005 @@ -115,8 +115,6 @@ int __chrp chrp_set_rtc_time(unsigned lo chrp_cmos_clock_write(save_control, RTC_CONTROL); chrp_cmos_clock_write(save_freq_select, RTC_FREQ_SELECT); - if ( (time_state == TIME_ERROR) || (time_state == TIME_BAD) ) - time_state = TIME_OK; spin_unlock(&rtc_lock); return 0; } diff -puN arch/ppc/platforms/gemini_setup.c~ppc32-fix-a-problem-with-ntp-on-chrpgemini arch/ppc/platforms/gemini_setup.c --- 25/arch/ppc/platforms/gemini_setup.c~ppc32-fix-a-problem-with-ntp-on-chrpgemini Fri Apr 8 16:38:57 2005 +++ 25-akpm/arch/ppc/platforms/gemini_setup.c Fri Apr 8 16:38:57 2005 @@ -433,9 +433,6 @@ gemini_set_rtc_time( unsigned long now ) /* done writing */ gemini_rtc_write(reg, M48T35_RTC_CONTROL); - if ((time_state == TIME_ERROR) || (time_state == TIME_BAD)) - time_state = TIME_OK; - return 0; } _