linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] [RFC] posix clock tuning

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Message-ID: <20100905055621.GA2699@riccoc20.at.omicron.at>
Date:	Sun, 5 Sep 2010 07:56:21 +0200
From:	Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Cc:	Christian Riesch <christian.riesch@...il.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-api@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] [RFC] posix clock tuning

On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 08:37:22PM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Sep 2010, Christian Riesch wrote:
> 
> > Richard's idea is to support clock hardware for IEEE 1588 (PTP, Precision Time
> > Protocol). Have a look at the earlier discussions:
> 
> Ok great. A summary of that belongs into the intro of the patchset.

I left off all mention of PTP, since Alan Cox said that all this talk
of PTP is not helpful. I think that the idea is introduce a method to
tune a clock referenced by its clockid_t. In other words, a patch for
tuning posix clocks, just as the subject lines indicate.

Richard

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