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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: "Mahesh Bandewar (महेश बंडेवार)" <maheshb@google.com>
Cc: Sagi Maimon <maimon.sagi@gmail.com>,
	richardcochran@gmail.com, luto@kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com,
	bp@alien8.de, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, x86@kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7] posix-timers: add clock_compare system call
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2024 11:24:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87il10ce1g.ffs@tglx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAF2d9jjA8iM1AoPUhQPK62tdd7gPnCnt51f_NMhOAs546rU3dA@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Apr 01 2024 at 22:42, Mahesh Bandewar (महेश बंडेवार) wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 1, 2024 at 1:46 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
>> So if there is a backwards compability issue with PTP_SYS_OFFSET2, then
>> you need to introduce PTP_SYS_OFFSET3. The PTP_SYS_*2 variants were
>> introduced to avoid backwards compatibility issues as well, but
>> unfortunately that did not address the reserved fields problem for
>> PTP_SYS_OFFSET2. PTP_SYS_OFFSET_EXTENDED2 should just work, but maybe
>> the PTP maintainers want a full extension to '3'. Either way is fine.
>>
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/patch/20240104212436.3276057-1-maheshb@google.com/
>
> This was my attempt to solve a similar issue with the new ioctl op to
> avoid backward compatibility issues.  Instead of flags I used the
> clockid_t in a similar fashion.

Works as well. I'm not seing the point for CLOCK_MONOTONIC and the
change logs are not really telling anything about the problem being
solved....

Thanks,

        tglx

  reply	other threads:[~2024-04-02  9:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-03-14  9:05 [PATCH v7] posix-timers: add clock_compare system call Sagi Maimon
2024-03-14 11:12 ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-03-14 12:19   ` Sagi Maimon
2024-03-14 15:59     ` Mark Rutland
2024-03-14 18:08     ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-03-20 14:42       ` Sagi Maimon
2024-03-23  0:38         ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-03-23  0:42           ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-03-24 11:04             ` Kurt Kanzenbach
2024-03-28 15:40           ` Sagi Maimon
2024-04-01 20:46             ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-04-02  5:42               ` Mahesh Bandewar (महेश बंडेवार)
2024-04-02  9:24                 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2024-04-02 21:16                   ` Mahesh Bandewar (महेश बंडेवार)
2024-04-02 22:37                     ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-04-02 23:37                       ` Mahesh Bandewar (महेश बंडेवार)
2024-04-03 13:48                         ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-04-03 15:42                           ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-04-11  2:55                           ` Mahesh Bandewar (महेश बंडेवार)
2024-04-11  7:11                             ` Sagi Maimon
2024-04-11 16:33                               ` Mahesh Bandewar (महेश बंडेवार)
2024-04-14 12:22                                 ` Sagi Maimon
2024-04-15 17:23                                   ` Mahesh Bandewar (महेश बंडेवार)
2024-04-16  8:39                                     ` Sagi Maimon
2024-03-14 15:46   ` Sagi Maimon
2024-03-14 18:42     ` Thomas Gleixner

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