From: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:56:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070925215629.GA10926@c2.user-mode-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1190750055.17409.38.camel@chaos>
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.
Jeff
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Work email - jdike at linux dot intel dot com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-25 21:57 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 [this message]
2007-09-25 22:08 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-26 15:46 ` [uml-devel] " Paolo Giarrusso
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