Re: FW: [RFC] A more general timeout specification

[Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>]

Hi,

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky wrote:

> +	flags = tp->clock_id & TIMEOUT_FLAGS_MASK;
> +	clock_id = tp->clock_id & TIMEOUT_CLOCK_MASK;
> +
> +	result = -EINVAL;
> +	if (flags & ~TIMEOUT_RELATIVE)
> +	    goto out;
> +
> +	/* someday, we should support *all* clocks available to us */
> +	if (clock_id != CLOCK_REALTIME && clock_id != CLOCK_MONOTONIC)
> +		goto out;
> +	if ((unsigned long)tp->ts.tv_nsec >= NSEC_PER_SEC)
> +		goto out;

Why is that needed in a _general_ timeout API? What exactly makes it so 
useful for everyone and not just more complex for everyone?

bye, Roman
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