Re: [PATCH 2/2] printk, Add printk.clock kernel parameter

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Thu, 7 Jan 2016, Petr Mladek wrote:
> On Thu 2016-01-07 10:38:37, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
> > Heh :)  I didn't even think of testing that.  I'll have to think about that a
> > bit more.  systemd logging must assume boot time/local time.  I'll ping those
> > guys with a patch if/when the next version of this gets accepted.
> 
> I am not sure how many tools would be affected by this.

I don't see a point in a gazillion of different clocks for printk either.

> An easier solution would be to normalize all times and always save the
> relative time since the boot as it is done now.

Why? What's wrong with simply using the existing ktime_get_mono_fast_ns()
instead of local_clock() and be done with it?

Thanks,

	tglx