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From: David Ford <david+challenge-response@blue-labs.org>
To: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: george anzinger <george@mvista.com>,
	Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Petri Kaukasoina <kaukasoi@elektroni.ee.tut.fi>,
	albert@users.sourceforge.net, hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	voland@dmz.com.pl, nicolas.george@ens.fr
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: boot time, process start time, and NOW time
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 17:10:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4134E959.6070807@blue-labs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1093985817.14662.155.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com>

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>
>
>Hmmm. Well, I may be starting to lean in Tim's direction of pulling the
>clock_monotonic based uptime and going back to the jiffies based uptime.
>Atleast until we can make all the /proc/ output consistent. 
>
>I just worry that it actually fixed a problem for someone, and backing
>it out would just reopen that.
>
>Thoughts?
>
>-john
>

I would rather deal with some aesthetic breakage and get it fixed.  
Right now, having been mildly affected by differing times, and having 
seen the lengthy discussion about it, it feels like a huge octopus of 
timelines in the kernel.  Each one of them different, some just a 
little, some significantly - especially after suspend/resume events.

-david


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  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-31 21:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-22 23:57 boot time, process start time, and NOW time Albert Cahalan
2004-06-28 17:56 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2004-08-16 19:41   ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-16 21:49     ` john stultz
2004-08-16 23:08     ` Tim Schmielau
2004-08-16 23:56       ` Tim Schmielau
2004-08-17  0:21       ` john stultz
2004-08-17  0:37         ` George Anzinger
2004-08-17  0:49           ` john stultz
2004-08-17  0:31       ` George Anzinger
2004-08-16 22:32         ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-17  1:26           ` George Anzinger
2004-08-16 23:08             ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-17  1:54               ` James Courtier-Dutton
2004-08-17  2:03                 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-17 20:52                 ` George Anzinger
2004-08-17  6:56         ` Tim Schmielau
2004-08-17 20:07           ` john stultz
2004-08-17 20:13             ` [RFC] New timeofday implementation proposal john stultz
2004-08-17 20:58               ` [RFC] New timeofday code john stultz
2004-09-01 23:16               ` [RFC] New timeofday implementation proposal Christoph Lameter
2004-08-16 23:24     ` boot time, process start time, and NOW time Albert Cahalan
2004-08-17 19:00       ` john stultz
2004-08-17 17:41         ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-17 20:58           ` john stultz
2004-08-17 20:25     ` [PATCH] " Tim Schmielau
2004-08-17 22:24       ` George Anzinger
2004-08-17 22:37         ` john stultz
2004-08-17 23:07           ` Tim Schmielau
2004-08-18  0:11             ` john stultz
2004-08-17 22:19               ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-18  1:09                 ` john stultz
2004-08-17 22:45                   ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-18  7:42                   ` Tim Schmielau
2004-08-19 19:15                     ` Petri Kaukasoina
2004-08-26 11:04                       ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-26 12:07                         ` Tim Schmielau
2004-08-30 23:00                           ` Tim Schmielau
2004-08-30 23:38                             ` john stultz
2004-08-31  0:37                               ` Albert Cahalan
2004-08-31  0:49                                 ` Tim Schmielau
2004-08-31  0:45                               ` Tim Schmielau
2004-08-31  1:23                                 ` john stultz
2004-08-31  1:34                             ` john stultz
2004-08-31  6:07                               ` Tim Schmielau
2004-08-31 19:27                                 ` George Anzinger
2004-08-31 20:56                                   ` john stultz
2004-08-31 21:10                                     ` David Ford [this message]
2004-09-02 20:39                                     ` George Anzinger
2004-09-01 19:14                                 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2004-09-02 20:58                                   ` George Anzinger
2004-09-02 21:38                                     ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2004-09-03  0:59                                       ` George Anzinger
2004-09-03  3:35                                         ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2004-09-03  7:31                                           ` George Anzinger
2004-09-03  7:51                                             ` Tim Schmielau
2004-09-03  7:15                                       ` Tim Schmielau

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