From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 21:14:09 +0000 Subject: Re: gettimeofday nanoseconds patch (makes it possible for the Message-Id: <16629.41505.190823.945993@napali.hpl.hp.com> List-Id: References: <1089835776.1388.216.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Christoph Lameter Cc: john stultz , lkml , ia64 >>>>> On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 13:28:39 -0700 (PDT), Christoph Lameter said: Christoph> Right. I had it named getnstimeofday before but the Christoph> feeling was that the patch should not introduce a new Christoph> name. Any approach that would allow progress on the issue Christoph> would be fine with me. Just to avoid further confusion: I wasn't objecting to the name, I was suggesting that do_gettimeofday() should instead use timespec. Christoph> do_gettimeofday is used all over the linux kernel for a Christoph> variety of purposes and lots of code depends on the Christoph> presence of a timeval struct. Which is true... --david From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265781AbUGNVRT (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jul 2004 17:17:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265782AbUGNVRS (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jul 2004 17:17:18 -0400 Received: from palrel10.hp.com ([156.153.255.245]:19397 "EHLO palrel10.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265789AbUGNVOM (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jul 2004 17:14:12 -0400 From: David Mosberger MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16629.41505.190823.945993@napali.hpl.hp.com> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 14:14:09 -0700 To: Christoph Lameter Cc: john stultz , lkml , ia64 Subject: Re: gettimeofday nanoseconds patch (makes it possible for the posix-timer functions to return higher accuracy) In-Reply-To: References: <1089835776.1388.216.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.18 under Emacs 21.3.1 Reply-To: davidm@hpl.hp.com X-URL: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/David_Mosberger/ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 13:28:39 -0700 (PDT), Christoph Lameter said: Christoph> Right. I had it named getnstimeofday before but the Christoph> feeling was that the patch should not introduce a new Christoph> name. Any approach that would allow progress on the issue Christoph> would be fine with me. Just to avoid further confusion: I wasn't objecting to the name, I was suggesting that do_gettimeofday() should instead use timespec. Christoph> do_gettimeofday is used all over the linux kernel for a Christoph> variety of purposes and lots of code depends on the Christoph> presence of a timeval struct. Which is true... --david