Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] Produce system time from correlated clocksource

Thomas Gleixner
2015-10-15T08:14:36Z

On Thu, 15 Oct 2015, Richard Cochran wrote:
> Thomas seems to say that there are *other* applications that will want
> to transform device time into system time, but why does your audio
> application use the system time, when the audio-to-ptp time is
> directly available, without any man in the middle?

PTP time is slow to access. Having a correlation to system time makes
a log of things simpler; nanosleep is the most obvious example.

Thanks,

tglx