Re: [PATCH] LinuxPPS (with new syscalls API) - new version

[Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com>]

On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 05:13:25PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 19:13:40 +0200 Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com> wrote:
> >
> > Maybe I can define a special struct for exchanging time data as:
> > 
> >    struct pps_timedata_s {
> >       long sec;
> >       long nsec;
> >    }
> > 
> > and managing time data conversions at userland...
> > 
> > What do you think about that? :)
> 
> "long" is one of the datatypes that changes size between 32 bit and 64
> bit, so not such a good choice. You could use __u32 or __64 (or
> whatever), that makes it very clear that these are fixed size data types.

    struct pps_timedata_s {
       __32 sec;
       __32 nsec;
    }

Ok? I think 32 bits are enought for keeping seconds... :)

If you have no more advices I think I can start changing this part in
order to avoid using struct timespec.

Ciao,

Rodolfo

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