Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Apr 2018 17:00:58 +0200 (CEST) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [RFC/RFT patch 0/7] timekeeping: Unify clock MONOTONIC and clock BOOTTIME |
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On Tue, 24 Apr 2018, Genki Sky wrote: > Sorry to have been the bearer of bad news :(.
No problem. We're not shooting the messengers
> Again, I just have my user hat on here. It does seem like this unifying > would have been nice to have. And even, more compliant with the POSIX > definition of MONOTONIC...
Yes, that was the idea
> On that note, maybe it is still worth introducing MONOTONIC_ACTIVE, > but just as an alias for MONOTONIC for now. It's also more > self-documenting. Then sometime in the future, if people switch over, > remove BOOTTIME and make MONOTONIC like BOOTTIME. Though this doesn't > help simplify the code, I know.
It doesn't and it does not make applications magically make use of MONOTONIC_ACTIVE. We're in a trap here.....
Thanks,
tglx
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