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Subject: Re: Accessing monotonic clock from modules
From: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
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On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 09:48 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

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

That was the root of my concern; if the interface is more of a "do"
function, maybe we need something cleaner as the officially exported
interface?  With, of course, a better name. ;-)

I do thing that this is useful, though--at GUADEC I talked with some
folks who really want to get at a good clock source, the same from both
the kernel and user-space.

	Robert Love