From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751339AbXAFKvX (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Jan 2007 05:51:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751341AbXAFKvX (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Jan 2007 05:51:23 -0500 Received: from nic.NetDirect.CA ([216.16.235.2]:50926 "EHLO rubicon.netdirect.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751339AbXAFKvW (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Jan 2007 05:51:22 -0500 X-Originating-Ip: 74.109.98.100 Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 05:46:27 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost.localdomain To: Linux kernel mailing list Subject: "do_gettimeofday" vs "get_realtime_clock_ts" vs "__get_realtime_clock_ts" Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-16.8, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, BAYES_00 -15.00) X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-From: rpjday@mindspring.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org i notice, in kernel/timer.c, the kernel-doc comment for do_gettimeofday(): NOTE: Users should be converted to using get_realtime_clock_ts() does this mean that do_gettimeofday() should be officially deprecated? that *seems* to be what that note is suggesting. in any event, there is no "get_realtime_clock_ts" routine -- it's actually called "__get_realtime_clock_ts". so *something* should be fixed here, no? rday