From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762725AbXGKBTe (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:19:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754499AbXGKBT1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:19:27 -0400 Received: from scrub.xs4all.nl ([194.109.195.176]:2724 "EHLO scrub.xs4all.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753685AbXGKBT0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:19:26 -0400 From: Roman Zippel To: Lennart Sorensen Subject: Re: [PATCH] LinuxPPS (with new syscalls API) - new version Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 03:18:46 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 Cc: Rodolfo Giometti , Stephen Rothwell , David Woodhouse , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton References: <1183031060.1170.145.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20070701192441.GW13886@enneenne.com> <20070710160151.GB31195@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> In-Reply-To: <20070710160151.GB31195@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200707110318.49244.zippel@linux-m68k.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Tuesday 10 July 2007, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 09:24:41PM +0200, Rodolfo Giometti wrote: > > struct pps_timedata_s { > > __32 sec; > > __32 nsec; > > } > > > > Ok? I think 32 bits are enought for keeping seconds... :) > > You want to purposely define an API that will break in 23 years (or is > that 83 years since you made it unsigned potentially)? This is really not an API that needs to deal with such large time range. bye, Roman