From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752795Ab1A0Ssa (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:48:30 -0500 Received: from e31.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.149]:53162 "EHLO e31.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751889Ab1A0Ss2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:48:28 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH V10 01/15] time: Introduce timekeeping_inject_offset From: John Stultz To: Richard Cochran , Richard Cochran Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox , Arnd Bergmann , Christoph Lameter , David Miller , Krzysztof Halasa , Peter Zijlstra , Rodolfo Giometti , Thomas Gleixner , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , "H. Peter Anvin" , Ingo Molnar , Mike Frysinger , Paul Mackerras , Russell King In-Reply-To: <6aec014551fc1d34924d6a7bcf97769867c15ba9.1296124770.git.richard.cochran@omicron.at> References: <6aec014551fc1d34924d6a7bcf97769867c15ba9.1296124770.git.richard.cochran@omicron.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:48:19 -0800 Message-ID: <1296154099.2855.162.camel@work-vm> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 11:54 +0100, John Stultz wrote: > This adds a kernel-internal timekeeping interface to add or subtract > a fixed amount from CLOCK_REALTIME. This makes it so kernel users or > interfaces trying to do so do not have to read the time, then add an > offset and then call settimeofday(), which adds some extra error in > comparision to just simply adding the offset in the kernel timekeeping > core. > > CC: Thomas Gleixner > Signed-off-by: John Stultz > Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran > --- Hey Richard, Something seems wrong with your mail sending script. It looks like your sending the email under my name (John Stultz ). While I appreciate you preserving the path author, and the signoffs are right, you really should send the email under your own name. The proper style is to keep the mail-header From: the same (ie: Richard Cochran ), but as the first line of the mail body put: From: Author Name thanks -john