From: Gerald Britton <gbritton@alum.mit.edu>
To: Mikael Starvik <mikael.starvik@axis.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Accessing monotonic clock from modules
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 20:14:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050603001419.GA15686@fog.sekrit.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BFECAF9E178F144FAEF2BF4CE739C66801B7645C@exmail1.se.axis.com>
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 08:36:48AM +0200, Mikael Starvik wrote:
> We would like to get the posix monotonic clock from a loadable module.
> Would a patch to make do_posix_clock_monotonic_gettime exported ok or
> should we do it in some other way?
A possible use of a clean api would be in the packet rx timestamping code
where one is interested in accurate inter-packet timing, but the only way of
timestamping currently uses do_gettimeofday, so is fragile across time
time changes.
-- Gerald
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-03 0:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-02 6:36 Mikael Starvik
2005-06-02 7:29 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-06-02 7:30 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-06-02 7:40 ` Robert Love
2005-06-02 7:48 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-06-02 7:52 ` Robert Love
2005-06-02 7:56 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-06-02 13:46 ` Chris Friesen
2005-06-02 13:48 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-06-02 14:21 ` Chris Friesen
2005-06-04 3:27 ` Lee Revell
2005-06-04 21:48 ` Lee Revell
2005-06-03 0:14 ` Gerald Britton [this message]
[not found] <BFECAF9E178F144FAEF2BF4CE739C66802FA37AC@exmail1.se.axis.com>
2005-06-02 10:57 ` Mikael Starvik
2005-06-02 11:15 ` Arjan van de Ven
[not found] <BFECAF9E178F144FAEF2BF4CE739C66802FA3913@exmail1.se.axis.com>
2005-06-02 12:40 ` Mikael Starvik
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