Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758068Ab3ENP5X (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 May 2013 11:57:23 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f48.google.com ([209.85.160.48]:41192 "EHLO mail-pb0-f48.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756906Ab3ENP5V (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 May 2013 11:57:21 -0400 Message-ID: <51925EDC.2080307@linaro.org> Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 08:57:16 -0700 From: John Stultz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130404 Thunderbird/17.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gu Zheng CC: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel , JBottomley@parallels.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Kernel/time: Introduce a new timestamp function local_time_seconds() References: <5191EBA7.9010303@cn.fujitsu.com> In-Reply-To: <5191EBA7.9010303@cn.fujitsu.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 709 Lines: 18 On 05/14/2013 12:45 AM, Gu Zheng wrote: > From 18072c1c3506a7e37ee485307a2c343efe5af4d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Gu Zheng > Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 15:45:24 +0900 > Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Kernel/time: Introduce a new timestamp function local_time_seconds() > > Introduce a new timestamp function local_time_seconds() to hide the conversion of system time in UTC to local time seconds. So, why is this useful/needed? thanks -john -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/