From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261597AbVFBHjY (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jun 2005 03:39:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261601AbVFBHjY (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jun 2005 03:39:24 -0400 Received: from peabody.ximian.com ([130.57.169.10]:29331 "EHLO peabody.ximian.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261597AbVFBHjR (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jun 2005 03:39:17 -0400 Subject: Re: Accessing monotonic clock from modules From: Robert Love To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Mikael Starvik , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1117697423.6458.18.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> References: <1117697423.6458.18.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 03:40:45 -0400 Message-Id: <1117698045.6833.16.camel@jenny.boston.ximian.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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? Robert Love