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From: Frank v Waveren <fvw@var.cx>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] prevent timespec/timeval to ktime_t overflow
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:26:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060830222647.GC21353@var.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1156976556.29250.230.camel@localhost.localdomain>

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On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 12:22:36AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Well, the point is that pre hrtimer kernels did just sleep as long as
> they internaly could. So the hrtimers / ktime_t merge changed the
> userspace interface behaviour, which is breakage.
...

Ok, that's a convincing argument, your patch is the better solution.

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-30 22:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-30  8:44 [PATCH] prevent timespec/timeval to ktime_t overflow Thomas Gleixner
2006-08-30 21:44 ` Frank v Waveren
2006-08-30 22:05   ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-08-30 22:08     ` Frank v Waveren
2006-08-30 22:22       ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-08-30 22:26         ` Frank v Waveren [this message]
2006-09-01  3:46 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-01  8:56   ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-09-01  9:04     ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-01  9:30       ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-09-02  3:13         ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-02  3:32           ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-02  8:08           ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-02 18:41           ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-09-02 19:28             ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-09-02 19:43               ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-02 19:32             ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-02 11:04   ` Frank v Waveren
2006-09-02 18:44     ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-09-03  3:13       ` Frank v Waveren

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