On Saturday 21 March 2015, Richard Cochran wrote: > On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 02:16:41AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > 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. > > Not true of all drivers. In fact, the most capable devices (phyter > and i210) have a split representation.
Ok, sorry for missing those earlier, I thought I'd looked at all of them and not found any that did it like this. > > but it is not any more > > or less efficient than the previous method. > > Right, so no point in changing it. > > > Of course, but it would be rather bad style. > > Introducing useless code just to remove it again is also bad style. > > I disagree with the approach presented here. The problem at hand is > the 2038 issue. Let's fix that first, in the easiest way, with the > least churn, namely by using timespec64 in place of timespec. Once > that is done, we can change over to ktime_t, if and when the need > arises. Ok, fair enough. I only saw this mail now after replying on the longer series, consider my comment on ktime_t withdrawn. 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/