linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] timerfd: add alarm timers

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Message-ID: <519D6EEB.3080905@linaro.org>
Date:	Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:43 -0700
From:	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
To:	Todd Poynor <toddpoynor@...gle.com>
CC:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] timerfd: add alarm timers

On 05/15/2013 02:51 PM, John Stultz wrote:
> On 05/15/2013 02:38 PM, Todd Poynor wrote:
>> Add support for clocks CLOCK_REALTIME_ALARM and CLOCK_BOOTTIME_ALARM,
>> thereby enabling wakeup alarm timers via file descriptors.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Todd Poynor <toddpoynor@...gle.com>
>
> This all looks great to me and has been on my own todo list for awhile.
>
> As I said, I'll queue the alarmtimer changes, and if I can get some 
> acks from the fs folks, I'd be happy to queue the timerfd changes.
>

Ping? Any fsdevel folks mind taking a look at this?

Or maybe to turn this around, are there any objections to this change 
going in via tip/timers/core?

thanks
-john

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