Re: [PATCH 7/9] RFC: rtc: implement rtc_read_timeval()

[John Stultz]

On 06/14/2013 09:52 AM, Alexander Holler wrote:
> Some RTCs offer a higher resolution than seconds. To support reading such
> high resolution timestamps from inside the kernel implement
> rtc_read_timeval() and add a read_timeval to the rtc-ops.
>
> This is done to support high precision read-only clocks (like radio- or
> GPS-clocks) from inside the kernel (mainly hctosys). Therfor there is
> currently no need to set the clock or to extend the (rtc-)userspace api to
> support high precision timestamps.

And is there really no reason to eventually pass this out to userland? 
Also won't we need an equivalent resolution settime method?

thanks
-john

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