linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] prevent timespec/timeval to ktime

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Message-ID: <20060830222647.GC21353@var.cx>
Date:	Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:26:47 +0200
From:	Frank v Waveren <fvw@....cx>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] prevent timespec/timeval to ktime_t overflow

On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 12:22:36AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Well, the point is that pre hrtimer kernels did just sleep as long as
> they internaly could. So the hrtimers / ktime_t merge changed the
> userspace interface behaviour, which is breakage.
...

Ok, that's a convincing argument, your patch is the better solution.

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