Re: [PATCH 0/4] Posix Alarm Timers

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Wednesday 20 April 2011 01:58:26 John Stultz wrote:
> 
> Just wanted to send out my current Posix Alarm Timers queue for 
> comment and review in the hopes of getting it into shape for
> 2.6.40.
> 
> Some background on the patches can be found here:
>         https://lwn.net/Articles/429925/
> 
> New in this series:
> * Added timekeeping_inject_sleeptime, which corrects CLOCK_BOOTTIME
>   for arches that don't support read_persistent_clock().
> * I've added a CAP_WAKE_ALARM capability to limit random applications
>   from setting alarms in the last patch. This probably needs some
>   careful review as it allows clock_nanosleep and timer_create to
>   return -EPERM, which is new behavior.
> 
I haven't looked at these patches much before, so I've done a brief
review now. They look very nice, and I can't find anything to complain
about.

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
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