From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Cochran Subject: [PATCH RFC 0/1] introduce a syscall for posix clock tuning Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:15:57 +0200 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail-bw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.214.46]:41352 "EHLO mail-bw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753026Ab0HWIPp (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Aug 2010 04:15:45 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Recently on lkml, we discussed adding a new syscall, with the motivation of supporting PTP clocks. Here is my suggestion how this should look like. I would like to get some agreement about this new interface before proceeding with the PTP stuff itself. Thanks, Richard Richard Cochran (1): posix clocks: introduce syscall for clock tuning. arch/arm/include/asm/unistd.h | 1 + arch/arm/kernel/calls.S | 1 + arch/blackfin/include/asm/unistd.h | 3 +- arch/blackfin/mach-common/entry.S | 1 + arch/powerpc/include/asm/systbl.h | 1 + arch/powerpc/include/asm/unistd.h | 3 +- arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S | 1 + arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_32.h | 3 +- arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_64.h | 2 + arch/x86/kernel/syscall_table_32.S | 1 + include/linux/posix-timers.h | 5 ++++ include/linux/syscalls.h | 3 ++ kernel/compat.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++ kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c | 5 ++++ kernel/posix-timers.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 15 files changed, 85 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)