Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261644AbVCQISQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Mar 2005 03:18:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261850AbVCQISQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Mar 2005 03:18:16 -0500 Received: from rrzmta2.rz.uni-regensburg.de ([132.199.1.17]:60573 "EHLO rrzmta2.rz.uni-regensburg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261644AbVCQISM (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Mar 2005 03:18:12 -0500 From: "Ulrich Windl" Organization: Universitaet Regensburg, Klinikum To: john stultz Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 09:15:10 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] new timeofday core subsystem (v. A3) Cc: lkml , Tim Schmielau , George Anzinger , albert@users.sourceforge.net, Ulrich Windl , Dominik Brodowski , David Mosberger , Andi Kleen , paulus@samba.org, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, keith maanthey , Patricia Gaughen , Chris McDermott , Max Asbock , mahuja@us.ibm.com, Nishanth Aravamudan , Darren Hart , "Darrick J. Wong" , Anton Blanchard , donf@us.ibm.com Message-ID: <42394A9F.30698.4E10AC@rkdvmks1.ngate.uni-regensburg.de> In-reply-to: <1110911106.30498.457.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com> References: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.21c) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-Content-Conformance: HerringScan-0.25/Sophos-P=3.88.0+V=3.88+U=2.07.079+R=06 December 2004+T=99328@20050317.081201Z Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 974 Lines: 28 On 15 Mar 2005 at 10:25, john stultz wrote: > On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 21:37 -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > Note that similarities exist between the posix clock and the time sources. > > Will all time sources be exportable as posix clocks? > > At this point I'm not familiar enough with the posix clocks interface to > say, although its probably outside the scope of the initial timeofday > rework. I'd be happy to see the required POSIX clocks at nanosecond resolution for the initial version. Add-Ons may follow later. > > Do you have a link that might explain the posix clocks spec and its > intent? There's a book named like "POSIX.4: Programming for the real world" by Bill Gallmeister (I think). Regards, Ulrich - 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/