From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@linuxmail.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Fix sysdev time support
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 22:15:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041112211531.GC1252@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1100291593.4090.2.camel@desktop.cunninghams>
Hi!
> > > Fix type of sleep_start, so as to eliminate clock skew due to math
> > > errors.
> >
> > Are you sure? I do not think long signed/unsigned problem can skew the
> > clock by 1hour. I could see skewing clock by few years, but not by one
> > hour...
>
> It seemed small to me, too. Perhaps I just didn't notice the shift in
> the date. I'll look again, if you like.
Yes, I'd like to understand this problem.
Pavel
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-12 21:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-11 22:58 [PATCH 0/3] Fix sysdev time support Nigel Cunningham
2004-11-11 22:58 ` [PATCH 1/3] " Nigel Cunningham
2004-11-12 7:58 ` Pavel Machek
2004-11-11 22:59 ` [PATCH 2/3] " Nigel Cunningham
2004-11-12 8:03 ` Pavel Machek
2004-11-11 22:59 ` [PATCH 3/3] " Nigel Cunningham
2004-11-12 8:00 ` Pavel Machek
2004-11-12 20:33 ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-11-12 21:15 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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