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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Arve Hjønnevåg" <arve@android.com>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"Alessandro Zummo" <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Posix Alarm Timers
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 08:40:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201104200840.33671.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1303257510-15054-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org>

On Wednesday 20 April 2011 01:58:26 John Stultz wrote:
> 
> Just wanted to send out my current Posix Alarm Timers queue for 
> comment and review in the hopes of getting it into shape for
> 2.6.40.
> 
> Some background on the patches can be found here:
>         https://lwn.net/Articles/429925/
> 
> New in this series:
> * Added timekeeping_inject_sleeptime, which corrects CLOCK_BOOTTIME
>   for arches that don't support read_persistent_clock().
> * I've added a CAP_WAKE_ALARM capability to limit random applications
>   from setting alarms in the last patch. This probably needs some
>   careful review as it allows clock_nanosleep and timer_create to
>   return -EPERM, which is new behavior.
> 
I haven't looked at these patches much before, so I've done a brief
review now. They look very nice, and I can't find anything to complain
about.

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-04-20  6:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-19 23:58 [PATCH 0/4] Posix Alarm Timers John Stultz
2011-04-19 23:58 ` [PATCH 1/4] time: Add timekeeping_inject_sleeptime John Stultz
2011-04-19 23:58 ` [PATCH 2/4] timers: Add rb_init_node() to allow for stack allocated rb nodes John Stultz
2011-04-19 23:58 ` [PATCH 3/4] timers: Introduce in-kernel alarm-timer interface John Stultz
2011-04-19 23:58 ` [PATCH 4/4] timers: posix interface for alarm-timers John Stultz
2011-04-20  6:34   ` Richard Cochran
2011-04-21 18:19     ` John Stultz
2011-04-20  6:40 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]

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