Subject: Re: [PATCH] Some clean up of the time code.
From: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
To: george anzinger <george@mvista.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
       "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Eric Piel <Eric.Piel@Bull.Net>
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On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 15:57, george anzinger wrote:
> Pushs down the change from timeval to timespec in the settime routines.

No complaints here. 

> Fixes two places where time was set without updating the monotonic
> clock offset.  (Changes sys_stime() to call do_settimeofday() and
> changes clock_warp to do the update directly.)  These were bugs!

Yea, that sys_stime bug really needed fixing. Thanks for kicking this
out.

> Changes the uptime code to use the posix_clock_monotonic notion of
> uptime instead of the jiffies.  This time will track NTP changes and
> so should be better than your standard wristwatch (if your using ntp).

Hmmm. Might want to see if the btime changes from last week could
benefit from a similar change. 

Didn't test it personally, but looks good. 

thanks
-john

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