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From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	Alexey Perevalov <a.perevalov@samsung.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
	Anton Vorontsov <anton@enomsg.org>,
	Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>,
	cw00.choi@samsung.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 5/6] timerfd: Add support for deferrable timers
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 10:42:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140305094210.GA6328@netboy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1403042254550.18573@ionos.tec.linutronix.de>

On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 11:11:21PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 
> Once we agree on a solution to the Y2038 issue on 32bit with a unified
> 32/64 bit syscall interface which simply gets rid of the timespec/val
> nonsense and takes a simple u64 nsec value we can add the slack
> property to that without any further inconvenience.

Can you expand on this tangent a bit?

Who needs to agree, and where is this being debated?

Thanks,
Richard

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-03-05  9:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-20 16:23 [PATCH v4 0/6] Deferrable timers support for hrtimers/timerfd API Alexey Perevalov
2014-02-20 16:23 ` [PATCH v4 1/6] Replace ternary operator to macro Alexey Perevalov
2014-02-20 20:49   ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-02-20 16:23 ` [PATCH v4 2/6] tracing/trivial: Add CLOCK_BOOTIME and CLOCK_TAI for human readable clockid trace Alexey Perevalov
2014-02-20 20:49   ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-02-20 16:23 ` [PATCH v4 3/6] hrtimer: Add support for deferrable timer into the hrtimer Alexey Perevalov
2014-02-20 16:23 ` [PATCH v4 4/6] timerfd: Move repeated logic into timerfd_rearm() Alexey Perevalov
2014-02-20 21:13   ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-02-20 16:23 ` [PATCH v4 5/6] timerfd: Add support for deferrable timers Alexey Perevalov
2014-02-26  2:53   ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-03-04 20:58     ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-03-04 21:53       ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-03-04 22:11         ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-03-04 22:43           ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-03-05  0:10             ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-03-05  0:42               ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-03-05 11:40                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-03-05  9:42           ` Richard Cochran [this message]
2014-02-20 16:23 ` [PATCH v4 6/6] tracing/trivial: Add CLOCK_*_DEFERRABLE for tracing clockids Alexey Perevalov

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