Re: Accessing monotonic clock from modules

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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
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