Messages in this thread | | | From | David Mosberger <> | Date | Wed, 14 Jul 2004 14:14:09 -0700 | Subject | Re: gettimeofday nanoseconds patch (makes it possible for the posix-timer functions to return higher accuracy) |
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>>>>> On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 13:28:39 -0700 (PDT), Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> said:
Christoph> Right. I had it named getnstimeofday before but the Christoph> feeling was that the patch should not introduce a new Christoph> name. Any approach that would allow progress on the issue Christoph> would be fine with me.
Just to avoid further confusion: I wasn't objecting to the name, I was suggesting that do_gettimeofday() should instead use timespec.
Christoph> do_gettimeofday is used all over the linux kernel for a Christoph> variety of purposes and lots of code depends on the Christoph> presence of a timeval struct.
Which is true...
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