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From: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	JBottomley@parallels.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Kernel/time: Introduce a new timestamp function local_time_seconds()
Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 11:32:40 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <519301D8.2030502@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51925EDC.2080307@linaro.org>

On 05/14/2013 11:57 PM, John Stultz wrote:

> On 05/14/2013 12:45 AM, Gu Zheng wrote:
>>  From 18072c1c3506a7e37ee485307a2c343efe5af4d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
>> Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 15:45:24 +0900
>> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Kernel/time: Introduce a new timestamp function local_time_seconds()
>>
>> Introduce a new timestamp function local_time_seconds() to hide the conversion of system time in UTC to local time seconds.
> 
> So, why is this useful/needed?

Hi John,
   There are some subsystems use local time seconds as a timestamp, such as scsi(refer to:http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg66089.html),
and so do many out-of-kernel-tree code I think.

Best regards,
Gu

> 
> thanks
> -john
> 
> 



  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-15  4:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-14  7:45 [PATCH 1/2] Kernel/time: Introduce a new timestamp function local_time_seconds() Gu Zheng
2013-05-14 15:57 ` John Stultz
2013-05-15  3:32   ` Gu Zheng [this message]
2013-05-15 11:18     ` James Bottomley

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