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From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET : Introduce SIOCGSTAMPNS ioctl to get timestamps with nanosec resolution
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 17:42:11 +0100
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On Thursday 08 March 2007 17:28, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > --- a/include/asm-mips/sockios.h
> > +++ b/include/asm-mips/sockios.h
> > @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ #define SIOCATMARK	_IOR('s', 7, int)
> >  #define SIOCSPGRP	_IOW('s', 8, pid_t)
> >  #define SIOCGPGRP	_IOR('s', 9, pid_t)
> >
> > -#define SIOCGSTAMP	0x8906			/* Get stamp - linux-specific */
> > +#define SIOCGSTAMP	0x8906		/* Get stamp (timeval) */
> > +#define SIOCGSTAMPNS	0x8907		/* Get stamp (timespec) */
>
> You might want to CC linux-arch or the architecture maintainers.
> Last time I changed something in this area I got complaints
> because it affected syscall emulation for non-Linux binaries
> or something like that.

I really dont see how this change could break syscall emulation for non-Linux 
binaries. SIOCGSTAMP{NS} is linux specific.

Could you please give the context of your past problems ?

Thank you