Re: Accessing monotonic clock from modules

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>]

On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 03:40 -0400, Robert Love wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 09:30 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 08:36 +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?
> > > 
> > > /Mikael
> > 
> > also... when are you going to get this module merged?
> > (exporting things without the module going into kernel.org shouldn't be
> > done imo... it makes it harder to change internals and causes overhead
> > for all kernel users)
> 
> And if we are going to make it an official interface, does it have to be
> called "do_posix_clock_monotonic_gettime" ?  Perhaps a more
> export-friendly name?

agreed.

well maybe it doesn't have such a name since it isn't intended as such
interface....


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