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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	uml-devel <user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] UML - time build fix
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:08:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1190758127.17409.81.camel@chaos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070925215629.GA10926@c2.user-mode-linux.org>

Jeff,

On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 17:56 -0400, Jeff Dike wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 09:54:15PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 13:37 -0400, Jeff Dike wrote:
> > > Put back an implementation of timeval_to_ns in
> > > arch/um/os-Linux/time.c.  tglx pointed out in his review of tickless
> > > support that there was a perfectly good implementation of it in
> > > linux/time.h.  The problem is that this is userspace code which can't
> > > pull in kernel headers and there doesn't seem to be a libc version.
> > 
> > Oops. Did not notice. 
> 
> It's a UML peculiarity...
> 
> > Can't we move it into some header file which is accessible from everywhere ?
> 
> Not in the generic kernel.  UML has some generally includable headers
> of its own, but that doesn't really help.
> 
> The one thing that would help is a libc timeval_to_ns.

Fair enough.

	tglx



  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-25 22:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-25 17:37 [PATCH] UML - time build fix Jeff Dike
2007-09-25 19:54 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-25 21:56   ` Jeff Dike
2007-09-25 22:08     ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2007-09-26 15:46       ` [uml-devel] " Paolo Giarrusso

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