linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 5/6] timerfd: Add support for deferrable timers

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Message-ID: <20140305094210.GA6328@netboy>
Date:	Wed, 5 Mar 2014 10:42:10 +0100
From:	Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Alexey Perevalov <a.perevalov@...sung.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
	Anton Vorontsov <anton@...msg.org>,
	Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>,
	cw00.choi@...sung.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 5/6] timerfd: Add support for deferrable timers

On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 11:11:21PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 
> Once we agree on a solution to the Y2038 issue on 32bit with a unified
> 32/64 bit syscall interface which simply gets rid of the timespec/val
> nonsense and takes a simple u64 nsec value we can add the slack
> property to that without any further inconvenience.

Can you expand on this tangent a bit?

Who needs to agree, and where is this being debated?

Thanks,
Richard
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