Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] Improve stability of system clock

[Richard Cochran]

On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 04:06:07PM -0700, John Stultz wrote:
> On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Is there a better way to run the timekeeping code in an userspace
> > application? I suspect it would need something like the Linux Kernel
> > Library project.
> 
> I dunno. There's probably a cleaner way to go about it, but I also
> feel like the benefit of just having the test in the kernel tree is
> that it can be managed as a unified whole, rather then the test being
> a separate thing and always playing catchup to kernel changes.

I vaguely recall a rant on the list years ago from a Linux bigwhig
saying how we don't support that kind of thing.  But maybe it is my
imagination.  In any case, IMHO running user space tests for chunks of
kernel code can be quite useful.

Thanks,
Richard