From: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
To: Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
rtc-linux@googlegroups.com, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] RFC: rtc: implement rtc_read_timeval()
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:28:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51BB52D8.3030506@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1371228732-5749-8-git-send-email-holler@ahsoftware.de>
On 06/14/2013 09:52 AM, Alexander Holler wrote:
> Some RTCs offer a higher resolution than seconds. To support reading such
> high resolution timestamps from inside the kernel implement
> rtc_read_timeval() and add a read_timeval to the rtc-ops.
>
> This is done to support high precision read-only clocks (like radio- or
> GPS-clocks) from inside the kernel (mainly hctosys). Therfor there is
> currently no need to set the clock or to extend the (rtc-)userspace api to
> support high precision timestamps.
And is there really no reason to eventually pass this out to userland?
Also won't we need an equivalent resolution settime method?
thanks
-john
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-14 17:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-19 15:14 [PATCH 0/3] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time Alexander Holler
2013-04-19 15:14 ` [PATCH 1/3 RESEND] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time: allow full years (16bit) in HID reports Alexander Holler
2013-04-19 15:14 ` [PATCH 2/3] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time: allow 16 and 32 bit values for all attributes Alexander Holler
2013-04-19 15:14 ` [PATCH 3/3] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time; add option hctosys to set time at boot Alexander Holler
2013-04-22 23:38 ` Andrew Morton
2013-04-23 8:51 ` Alexander Holler
2013-04-23 10:08 ` Alexander Holler
2013-04-23 10:13 ` Alexander Holler
2013-04-23 10:17 ` Alexander Holler
2013-04-23 15:47 ` Alexander Holler
2013-04-24 21:14 ` Andrew Morton
2013-04-25 6:55 ` Alexander Holler
2013-05-05 11:21 ` [PATCH 0/4] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time: some changes Alexander Holler
2013-05-05 11:21 ` [PATCH 1/4] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time: allow full years (16bit) in HID reports Alexander Holler
2013-05-05 11:21 ` [PATCH 2/4] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time: allow 16 and 32 bit values for all attributes Alexander Holler
2013-05-05 11:21 ` [PATCH 3/4] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time: add option hctosys to set time at boot Alexander Holler
2013-05-21 21:42 ` Andrew Morton
2013-05-21 22:02 ` John Stultz
2013-05-21 23:15 ` Alexander Holler
2013-05-28 19:37 ` John Stultz
2013-05-29 4:42 ` Alexander Holler
2013-06-04 13:41 ` Alexander Holler
2013-06-05 17:15 ` [PATCH 0/3] RFC: timekeeping: rtc: change hctosys mechanism Alexander Holler
2013-06-05 17:15 ` [PATCH 1/3] RFC: timekeeping: introduce flag systime_was_set Alexander Holler
2013-06-05 17:15 ` [PATCH 2/3] RFC: timekeeping: rtc: Introduce new kernel parameter hctosys Alexander Holler
2013-06-05 17:15 ` [PATCH 3/3] RFC: timekeeping: rtc: remove CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS and RTC_HCTOSYS_DEVICE Alexander Holler
2013-06-06 10:51 ` [PATCH 0/3 v2] RFC: timekeeping: rtc: change hctosys mechanism Alexander Holler
2013-06-06 10:51 ` [PATCH 1/3 RESEND] RFC: timekeeping: introduce flag systime_was_set Alexander Holler
2013-06-06 10:51 ` [PATCH 2/3 v2] RFC: timekeeping: rtc: Introduce new kernel parameter hctosys Alexander Holler
2013-06-13 19:39 ` Alexander Holler
2013-06-14 16:52 ` [PATCH 0/9 v3] RFC: timekeeping: rtc: change hctosys mechanism Alexander Holler
2013-06-14 16:52 ` [PATCH 1/9 RESEND] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time: allow full years (16bit) in HID reports Alexander Holler
2013-06-14 16:52 ` [PATCH 2/9 RESEND] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time: allow 16 and 32 bit values for all attributes Alexander Holler
2013-06-14 16:52 ` [PATCH 3/9] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time: delay registering as rtc into a work Alexander Holler
2013-06-20 10:39 ` [PATCH 3/9 v2] " Alexander Holler
2013-06-26 19:55 ` Andrew Morton
2013-06-26 21:34 ` [rtc-linux] " Alexander Holler
2013-06-26 22:07 ` Greg KH
2013-06-26 23:51 ` Alexander Holler
2013-07-06 8:55 ` Alexander Holler
2013-07-06 18:21 ` Jiri Kosina
2013-07-07 7:35 ` Alexander Holler
2013-07-08 9:12 ` [PATCH 0/2] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time: enable HID input processing early Alexander Holler
2013-07-08 9:12 ` [PATCH 1/2] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time: improve error handling when rtc register fails Alexander Holler
2013-07-08 9:12 ` [PATCH 2/2] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time: enable HID input processing early Alexander Holler
2013-06-28 1:29 ` [rtc-linux] Re: [PATCH 3/9 v2] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time: delay registering as rtc into a work Alexander Holler
2013-06-14 16:52 ` [PATCH 4/9 RESEND] RFC: timekeeping: introduce flag systime_was_set Alexander Holler
2013-06-14 17:41 ` John Stultz
2013-06-14 18:05 ` [rtc-linux] " Alexander Holler
2013-06-14 18:28 ` John Stultz
2013-06-15 6:01 ` Alexander Holler
2013-06-17 18:10 ` John Stultz
2013-06-20 10:15 ` Alexander Holler
2013-06-20 17:27 ` John Stultz
2013-06-20 18:45 ` Alexander Holler
2013-06-20 19:28 ` John Stultz
2013-06-20 23:10 ` Alexander Holler
2013-06-14 16:52 ` [PATCH 5/9 v3] RFC: timekeeping: rtc: Introduce new kernel parameter hctosys Alexander Holler
2013-06-14 19:24 ` John Stultz
2013-06-14 16:52 ` [PATCH 6/9 v3] RFC: timekeeping: rtc: remove CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS and RTC_HCTOSYS_DEVICE Alexander Holler
2013-06-14 19:11 ` John Stultz
2013-06-22 8:00 ` Alexander Holler
2013-06-14 16:52 ` [PATCH 7/9] RFC: rtc: implement rtc_read_timeval() Alexander Holler
2013-06-14 17:23 ` John Stultz
2013-06-14 17:43 ` Alexander Holler
2013-06-14 19:18 ` John Stultz
2013-06-14 17:28 ` John Stultz [this message]
2013-06-14 16:52 ` [PATCH 8/9] RFC: rtc: hctosys: support rtc_read_timeval() for high precision clocks Alexander Holler
2013-06-14 19:20 ` John Stultz
2013-06-14 16:52 ` [PATCH 9/9] RFC: rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time: add support for rtc_read_timeval() Alexander Holler
2013-06-14 17:27 ` [PATCH 0/9 v3] RFC: timekeeping: rtc: change hctosys mechanism John Stultz
2013-06-06 10:51 ` [PATCH 3/3 v2] RFC: timekeeping: rtc: remove CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS and RTC_HCTOSYS_DEVICE Alexander Holler
2013-06-04 9:38 ` [PATCH] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time: fix possible bug on driver_remove Alexander Holler
2013-06-08 8:56 ` Alexander Holler
2013-05-05 11:21 ` [PATCH 4/4] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time: add support for milliseconds Alexander Holler
2013-04-20 23:46 ` [PATCH 0/3] rtc: rtc-hid-sensor-time Jiri Kosina
2013-04-21 6:38 ` Alexander Holler
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