Re: high-res-timers start code.

2001-04-23 Thread Robert H. de Vries
On Monday 23 April 2001 22:43, George Anzinger wrote: > "Robert H. de Vries" wrote: > > On Monday 23 April 2001 19:45, you wrote: > > > By the way, is the user land stuff the same for all "arch"s? > > > > Not if you plan to handle the CPU cycle

Re: high-res-timers start code.

2001-04-23 Thread Robert H. de Vries
On Monday 23 April 2001 22:43, George Anzinger wrote: Robert H. de Vries wrote: On Monday 23 April 2001 19:45, you wrote: By the way, is the user land stuff the same for all archs? Not if you plan to handle the CPU cycle counter in user space. That is at least what I would propose

[PATCH] POSIX timers for 2.4.1

2001-02-03 Thread Robert H. de Vries
Hi Linus, Please accept this patch for inclusion. The impact on the kernel is negligible and it makes the kernel a bit more POSIX feature complete. I have received good feedback from people who have used the patch and I have used it a lot myself without any problems. This patch should not

[PATCH] POSIX timers for 2.4.1

2001-02-03 Thread Robert H. de Vries
Hi Linus, Please accept this patch for inclusion. The impact on the kernel is negligible and it makes the kernel a bit more POSIX feature complete. I have received good feedback from people who have used the patch and I have used it a lot myself without any problems. This patch should not

[PATCH] POSIX timers for 2.4.0

2001-01-25 Thread Robert H. de Vries
Hi Linus, Please accept this patch for inclusion. The impact on the kernel is negligible and it makes the kernel a bit more POSIX feature complete. I have received good feedback from people who have used the patch and I have used it a lot myself without any problems. This patch should not

[PATCH] POSIX timers for 2.4.0

2001-01-25 Thread Robert H. de Vries
Hi Linus, Please accept this patch for inclusion. The impact on the kernel is negligible and it makes the kernel a bit more POSIX feature complete. I have received good feedback from people who have used the patch and I have used it a lot myself without any problems. This patch should not

[ANN] POSIX timer patch for 2.4.0

2001-01-21 Thread Robert H. de Vries
Hi Linus, This patch adds the POSIX timer system calls to the kernel. The patch has been in a stable state for some time now. It has been tested on intel hardware only (SMP and UP). It also has been in use by myself and some other people for a year or so, which gives me some confidence that

[ANN] POSIX timer patch for 2.4.0

2001-01-21 Thread Robert H. de Vries
Hi Linus, This patch adds the POSIX timer system calls to the kernel. The patch has been in a stable state for some time now. It has been tested on intel hardware only (SMP and UP). It also has been in use by myself and some other people for a year or so, which gives me some confidence that

Re: [PATCH] Fix queued SIGIO

2000-09-20 Thread Robert H. de Vries
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Julian Anastasov wrote: >Hello, > >On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Robert H. de Vries wrote: >> It would be better to change SI_SIGIO in all the >> include/asm-*/siginfo.h files from -5 to __SI_CODE(__SI_SIGIO, -5) >> __SI_SIGIO would become (6 <<

Re: [PATCH] Fix queued SIGIO

2000-09-20 Thread Robert H. de Vries
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Julian Anastasov wrote: Hello, On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Robert H. de Vries wrote: It would be better to change SI_SIGIO in all the include/asm-*/siginfo.h files from -5 to __SI_CODE(__SI_SIGIO, -5) __SI_SIGIO would become (6 16). This is not needed for SI_SIGIO

Re: [PATCH] Fix queued SIGIO

2000-09-19 Thread Robert H. de Vries
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote: >> The problem is really that SI_SIGIO is negative, but it should be positive >> to make SI_FROMUSER return false on it. >> >> Changing it would unfortunately break binary compatibility. This patch > It would be better to change SI_SIGIO in all the

Re: [PATCH] Fix queued SIGIO

2000-09-19 Thread Robert H. de Vries
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote: The problem is really that SI_SIGIO is negative, but it should be positive to make SI_FROMUSER return false on it. Changing it would unfortunately break binary compatibility. This patch It would be better to change SI_SIGIO in all the