Re: [PATCH 0/2] [RFC] posix clock tuning

From: Richard Cochran
Date: Sun Sep 05 2010 - 01:56:43 EST


On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 08:37:22PM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Sep 2010, Christian Riesch wrote:
>
> > Richard's idea is to support clock hardware for IEEE 1588 (PTP, Precision Time
> > Protocol). Have a look at the earlier discussions:
>
> Ok great. A summary of that belongs into the intro of the patchset.

I left off all mention of PTP, since Alan Cox said that all this talk
of PTP is not helpful. I think that the idea is introduce a method to
tune a clock referenced by its clockid_t. In other words, a patch for
tuning posix clocks, just as the subject lines indicate.

Richard

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