Re: [PATCH net-next v3 3/8] rust: time: Change output of Ktime's sub operation to Delta

[Boqun Feng]

On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 10:25:11AM +0200, Alice Ryhl wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 5:53 AM FUJITA Tomonori
> <fujita.tomonori@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Change the output type of Ktime's subtraction operation from Ktime to
> > Delta. Currently, the output is Ktime:
> >
> > Ktime = Ktime - Ktime
> >
> > It means that Ktime is used to represent timedelta. Delta is
> > introduced so use it. A typical example is calculating the elapsed
> > time:
> >
> > Delta = current Ktime - past Ktime;
> >
> > Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> So this means that you are repurposing Ktime as a replacement for
> Instant rather than making both a Delta and Instant type? Okay. That
> seems reasonable enough.
> 

I think it's still reasonable to introduce a `Instant<ClockSource>` type
(based on `Ktime`) to avoid some mis-uses, but we can do that in the
future.

Regards,
Boqun

> Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Alice
>