On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, john stultz wrote: > Huh. So if I understand you properly, all timesources should have valid > read_fnct pointers that return the cycle value, however we'll still > preserve the type and mmio_ptr so fsyscall/vsyscall bits can use them > externally? > > Hmm. I'm a little cautious, as I really want to make the vsyscall > gettimeofday and regular do_gettimeofday be a similar as possible to > avoid some of the bugs we've seen between different gettimeofday > implementations. However I'm not completely against the idea. > > Christoph: Do you have any thoughts on this?
Sorry to be late to the party. It would be a weird implementation to have two ways to obtain time for each timesource. Also would be even more a headache to maintain than the existing fastcall vs. fullcall. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
