Re: [PATCH 2/7] Function to retrieve main clock state

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Thu Oct 01 2020 - 20:19:42 EST


On Fri, Oct 02 2020 at 00:05, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 01 2020 at 22:51, Erez Geva wrote:
>
> same comments as for patch 1 apply.
>
>> Add kernel function to retrieve main clock oscillator state.
>
> The function you are adding is named adjtimex(). adjtimex(2) is a well
> known user space interface and naming a read only kernel interface the
> same way is misleading.

Aside of that there is no user for this function in this series. We're
not adding interfaces just because we can.

Thanks,

tglx