Re: Accessing monotonic clock from modules

[Robert Love]

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


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