Re: [PATCH v6 0/8] ptp: IEEE 1588 hardware clock support

From: Richard Cochran
Date: Fri Sep 24 2010 - 09:14:24 EST


On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 09:36:54PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Drop the clockid_t and swap it for a file handle like a proper Unix or
> Linux interface. The rest is much the same
>
> fd = open /sys/class/timesource/[whatever]
>
> various queries you may want to do to check the name etc
>
> fclock_adjtime(fd, ...)

Okay, but lets extend the story:

clock_getttime(fd, ...);

clock_settime(fd, ...);

timer_create(fd, ...);

Can you agree to that as well?

(We would need to ensure that 'fd' avoids the range 0 to MAX_CLOCKS).

Richard
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