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From: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
To: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] posix-timers: Fix clock_adjtime to return timex data on success
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:27:45 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50EF2441.7020507@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130110201205.GE2909@netboy.at.omicron.at>

On 01/10/2013 12:12 PM, Richard Cochran wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 06:12:02PM +0100, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
>> Copy the modified timex data back to the user also with positive return
>> values. This fixes reading of the CLOCK_REALTIME timex data when the
>> clock is in a non-zero state.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>
> Acked-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
>
> (Adding John Stultz on CC)

Just to clarify (the commit message makes it pretty hard to understand 
exactly what's going wrong), this is to handle the case where 
clock_adj() returns a non-zero time_state value (such as TIME_INS) ?

thanks
-john


  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-10 20:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-10 17:12 [PATCH] posix-timers: Fix clock_adjtime to return timex data on success Miroslav Lichvar
2013-01-10 20:12 ` Richard Cochran
2013-01-10 20:27   ` John Stultz [this message]
2013-01-11 10:58     ` [PATCHv2] posix-timers: Fix clock_adjtime to always " Miroslav Lichvar
2013-01-12  2:29       ` John Stultz

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