Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:56:29 -0400 | From | Jeff Dike <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] UML - time build fix |
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On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 09:54:15PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 13:37 -0400, Jeff Dike wrote: > > Put back an implementation of timeval_to_ns in > > arch/um/os-Linux/time.c. tglx pointed out in his review of tickless > > support that there was a perfectly good implementation of it in > > linux/time.h. The problem is that this is userspace code which can't > > pull in kernel headers and there doesn't seem to be a libc version. > > Oops. Did not notice.
It's a UML peculiarity...
> Can't we move it into some header file which is accessible from everywhere ?
Not in the generic kernel. UML has some generally includable headers of its own, but that doesn't really help.
The one thing that would help is a libc timeval_to_ns.
Jeff
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