Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Dec 2004 21:20:32 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/7 (introduction)] cpu-timers and friends |
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Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> wrote: > > Note that the first patch changes an ill-advised new user-kernel ABI that > has been introduced since 2.6.9; I really think we should not let the > existing clockid_t encoding change get out in 2.6.10. I hope this patch > (and ideally all the rest) can go into 2.6.10, but reverting the earlier > patch so that we have no new clockid_t values at all would be better than > letting the existing code for CPU clocks make it into 2.6.10, IMHO.
Assuming that the outcome of any discussion with Christoph is agreement to proceed with your patches, I'd suggest that for 2.6.10 we apply some minimal patch which in some way hides the new-since-2.6.9 API changes from userspace, then we slot this work into 2.6.11.
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