Re: [RFC][PATCH] Input: Add infrastrucutre for monotonic event time stamps.

[John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>]

On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 15:28 -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 03:01:05PM -0800, John Stultz wrote:
> >  
> > +	case EVIOCMONTIME:
> > +		if (copy_from_user(&i, p, sizeof(unsigned int)))
> > +			return -EFAULT;
> > +		client->use_monotonic = i;
> > +		return 0;
> 
> Maybe we should let users pass not boolean but CLOCK_* value (and reject
> ones that we do not support) ? This way if someone wants to use some
> other clock type in the future we won't need new ioctl.

That sounds like a good idea. 
Otherwise any conceptual issues with the patch?

Arve: If this is something we can get upstream, do you see any
complications in getting the Android evdev user to use this IOCTL to
change the timestamp mode?

thanks
-john