From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
To: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Cc: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] LinuxPPS (with new syscalls API) - new version
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 03:18:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200707110318.49244.zippel@linux-m68k.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070710160151.GB31195@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Hi,
On Tuesday 10 July 2007, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 09:24:41PM +0200, Rodolfo Giometti wrote:
> > struct pps_timedata_s {
> > __32 sec;
> > __32 nsec;
> > }
> >
> > Ok? I think 32 bits are enought for keeping seconds... :)
>
> You want to purposely define an API that will break in 23 years (or is
> that 83 years since you made it unsigned potentially)?
This is really not an API that needs to deal with such large time range.
bye, Roman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-11 1:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-26 10:06 [PATCH] LinuxPPS (with new syscalls API) Rodolfo Giometti
2007-06-26 10:57 ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-26 17:06 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2007-06-26 17:38 ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-26 18:13 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2007-06-26 18:20 ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-27 10:14 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2007-06-27 10:18 ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-27 12:58 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2007-06-27 16:11 ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-27 17:45 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2007-06-27 17:49 ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-27 22:46 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2007-06-28 8:08 ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-28 8:15 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2007-06-28 8:31 ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-28 8:40 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2007-06-28 11:44 ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-28 14:15 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2007-06-28 16:14 ` [PATCH] LinuxPPS (with new syscalls API) - new version Rodolfo Giometti
2007-06-29 11:38 ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-29 15:08 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2007-06-29 15:25 ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-29 15:38 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2007-06-29 15:41 ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-29 16:23 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2007-06-29 16:23 ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-29 16:36 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2007-06-29 16:38 ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-29 15:55 ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-29 16:34 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2007-06-29 16:40 ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-30 17:13 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2007-07-01 7:13 ` Stephen Rothwell
2007-07-01 19:24 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2007-07-10 16:01 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-07-10 16:36 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2007-07-10 16:36 ` David Woodhouse
2007-07-10 16:44 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2007-07-10 22:03 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-07-11 8:06 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2007-07-11 15:22 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-07-11 16:32 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2007-07-11 1:18 ` Roman Zippel [this message]
2007-07-11 15:24 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-07-11 16:35 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2007-07-11 17:34 ` Roman Zippel
2007-07-01 12:03 ` David Woodhouse
2007-07-01 19:27 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2007-07-03 9:48 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2007-07-03 13:09 ` David Woodhouse
2007-07-03 13:21 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2007-07-09 13:19 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2007-07-10 16:05 ` David Woodhouse
2007-07-10 16:38 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2007-07-11 9:17 ` David Woodhouse
2007-07-11 10:46 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2007-06-30 8:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-30 17:06 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2007-07-08 9:05 ` Oleg Verych
2007-07-09 9:16 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2007-07-09 10:56 ` Makefiles for GNU make (Re: [PATCH] LinuxPPS (with new syscalls API) - new version) Oleg Verych
2007-07-09 10:57 ` Rodolfo Giometti
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