From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 2/8] clock device: convert clock_gettime
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:16:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201011101116.08038.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1289338622.9434.46.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Tuesday 09 November 2010, john stultz wrote:
> I wonder thought if it would be worth having a syscall to convert from
> fd to clock_id so it could be more flexible in the future. But it may
> not be worth it, as we're probably already limited by the cpuclock
> implementation.
If the file descriptor comes from a character device, we don't even need
a syscall, it could simply be an ioctl on the device.
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-10 10:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-04 19:26 [PATCH RFC 0/8] Dynamic clock devices Richard Cochran
2010-11-04 19:28 ` [PATCH RFC 1/8] Introduce dynamic " Richard Cochran
2010-11-08 6:38 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-12-04 14:55 ` Richard Cochran
2010-12-06 14:14 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-11-04 19:28 ` [PATCH RFC 2/8] clock device: convert clock_gettime Richard Cochran
2010-11-08 6:56 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-11-09 10:26 ` Richard Cochran
2010-11-09 12:47 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-11-09 21:37 ` john stultz
2010-11-10 10:16 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2010-11-08 23:37 ` john stultz
2010-11-09 8:23 ` Richard Cochran
2010-11-09 21:10 ` john stultz
2010-11-15 9:41 ` Richard Cochran
2010-11-04 19:28 ` [PATCH RFC 3/8] clock device: convert clock_getres Richard Cochran
2010-11-04 19:29 ` [PATCH RFC 4/8] clock device: convert clock_settime Richard Cochran
2010-11-04 19:29 ` [PATCH RFC 5/8] clock device: convert timer_create Richard Cochran
2010-11-04 19:30 ` [PATCH RFC 6/8] clock device: convert timer_delete Richard Cochran
2010-11-04 19:30 ` [PATCH RFC 7/8] clock device: convert timer_gettime Richard Cochran
2010-11-04 19:30 ` [PATCH RFC 8/8] clock device: convert timer_settime Richard Cochran
2010-11-08 23:01 ` [PATCH RFC 0/8] Dynamic clock devices john stultz
2010-11-15 9:34 ` Richard Cochran
2010-11-15 10:01 ` Paul Mundt
2010-11-18 16:33 ` Richard Cochran
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