From 5cae7371a78b99af668d4e1f43c985a8b707aa33 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: jow Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 17:03:24 +0000 Subject: [package] ppp: annotate most patches with description and S-o-b git-svn-id: svn://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/trunk@32463 3c298f89-4303-0410-b956-a3cf2f4a3e73 --- 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 041ae1f86..fb6c65679 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