Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 May 2013 11:32:40 +0800 | From | Gu Zheng <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] Kernel/time: Introduce a new timestamp function local_time_seconds() |
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On 05/14/2013 11:57 PM, John Stultz wrote:
> On 05/14/2013 12:45 AM, Gu Zheng wrote: >> From 18072c1c3506a7e37ee485307a2c343efe5af4d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >> From: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> >> Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 15:45:24 +0900 >> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Kernel/time: Introduce a new timestamp function local_time_seconds() >> >> Introduce a new timestamp function local_time_seconds() to hide the conversion of system time in UTC to local time seconds. > > So, why is this useful/needed?
Hi John, There are some subsystems use local time seconds as a timestamp, such as scsi(refer to:http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg66089.html), and so do many out-of-kernel-tree code I think.
Best regards, Gu
> > thanks > -john > >
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