linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] drm: vblank: use ktime

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Date:   Thu, 12 Oct 2017 11:20:02 -0700
From:   "Keith Packard" <keithp@...thp.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...el.com>,
        Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>,
        Sean Paul <seanpaul@...omium.org>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@...ux.intel.com>,
        Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>,
        Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@....com>,
        Thierry Reding <treding@...dia.com>,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] drm: vblank: use ktime_t instead of timeval

Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> writes:

> Overall, this seems good enough, so my patch removes the use of
> 'timeval' from the vblank handling altogether and uses ktime_t
> consistently, except for the part where we copy the data to user
> space structures in the existing format.

This patch is better than the portion of my patch which does the same
thing as it uses the ktime APIs consistently and doesn't assume that
ktime_t is in ns. Thanks much!

Reviewed-by: Keith Packard <keithp@...thp.com>

-- 
-keith

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