From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: "Michael Kerrisk" <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>,
"Ulrich Drepper" <drepper@redhat.com>,
geoff@gclare.org.uk, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Christoph Hellwig" <hch@lst.de>,
"Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>,
"Randy Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
vda.linux@googlemail.com,
"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
"Lee Schermerhorn" <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>,
"David Härdeman" <david@hardeman.nu>
Subject: Re: RFC: A revised timerfd API
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 23:26:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1190496385.4035.124.camel@chaos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709221359190.22085@alien.or.mcafeemobile.com>
On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 14:07 -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Sep 2007, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
>
> > So I'm inclined to implement option (b), unless someone has strong
> > objections. Davide, could I persuade you to help?
>
> I guess I better do, otherwise you'll continue to stress me ;)
>
> int timerfd_create(int clockid);
> int timerfd_settime(int ufd, int flags,
> const struct itimerspec *utmr,
> struct itimerspec *otmr);
> int timerfd_gettime(int ufd, struct itimerspec *otmr);
>
> Patch below. Builds, not tested yet (you need to remove the "broken"
> status from CONFIG_TIMERFD in case you want to test - and plug the new
> syscall to arch/xxx).
> May that work for you?
> Thomas-san, hrtimer_try_to_cancel() does not touch ->expires and I assume
> it'll never do, granted?
Davide-san, I have no intention to change that, but remember there is
this file "Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt" :)
tglx
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-22 21:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-18 7:27 RFC: A revised timerfd API Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-18 7:30 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-18 8:05 ` David Härdeman
2007-09-18 9:01 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-18 9:27 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-18 9:10 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-18 9:30 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-18 9:42 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-18 11:08 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-18 11:30 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-18 13:13 ` David Härdeman
2007-09-22 13:03 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-18 16:51 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-09-22 13:12 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-22 14:32 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2007-09-22 16:07 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-22 17:05 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-22 23:37 ` David Härdeman
2007-09-22 17:10 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-22 21:07 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-09-22 21:26 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2007-09-22 23:21 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-09-23 17:33 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-23 18:33 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-09-23 18:41 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-09-23 19:03 ` Michael Kerrisk
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