On Friday 20 March 2015, Richard Cochran wrote: > Instead of changing to ktime_t, just use timespec64 instead. That > way, each change will be a couple of lines per file.
This was the first idea, but it seems a bit silly when all the drivers use a 64-bit nanosecond value just like ktime_t. While both of the current users require a timespec at the moment, it's possible that there would one day be a third user that actually can make sense of a ktime_t, and then we'd avoid the expensive back-and-forth conversion. For now, using ktime_t in the interface merely simplifies the drivers by moving the conversion into the subsystem, but it is not any more or less efficient than the previous method. > > I do agree however that we should merge the entire series at once so > > we end up with a reasonable state afterwards, and we only need the > > conditional > > in order to have a bisectable git history. > > It is still bisectable with one or two patches. Of course, but it would be rather bad style. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/