Subject: Re: wi users - losing time?
To: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
From: Bernd Ernesti <netbsd@arresum.inka.de>
List: current-users
Date: 02/17/2002 09:49:46
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 10:34:51AM +0200, Jukka Marin wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 11:20:56PM +0100, Bernd Ernesti wrote:
> > Yes, it started somewhere at the beginning of last year.
> > 
> > See pr# kern/14559 for a possible patch.
> 
> It seems to help, at least on my laptop.  NTP hasn't stepped the clock since
> I installed the new kernel.  Clock offset is about 3 ms (but I can live with
> it ;-)

I had the same patch, okay and earlier version on my computer, but had to remove
it since a few updates to wi.c.

> IMHO, the patch should be applied to the wi sources in the repository..

Please send a mail with the subject: kern/14559 to gnats-bugs@netbsd.org with
a newer version of that patch so it will be applied to that pr.

And then we either need to apply this patch for come up in a really short time
with a real fix for this problem.

> Thanks to Bernd for pointing me to the patch (and to others for confirming
> the problem).

You are welcome.

Bernd