linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv6 03/36] posix-clocks: Rename the clock_get() into clock_get

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Date:   Thu, 15 Aug 2019 19:24:21 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Dmitry Safonov <dima@...sta.com>
cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@...il.com>,
        Andrei Vagin <avagin@...il.com>,
        Adrian Reber <adrian@...as.de>,
        Andrei Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>,
        Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>, Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...tuozzo.com>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@....com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCHv6 03/36] posix-clocks: Rename the clock_get() into
 clock_get_timespec()

On Thu, 15 Aug 2019, Dmitry Safonov wrote:

Just a nit vs. the subject line:

posix-clocks: Rename the clock_get() callback to clock_get_timespec()

> From: Andrei Vagin <avagin@...il.com>
> 
> The upcoming support for time namespaces requires to have access to:
>  - The time in a task's time namespace for sys_clock_gettime()
>  - The time in the root name space for common_timer_get()
> 
> That adds a valid reason to finally implement a separate callback which
> returns the time in ktime_t format, rather than in (struct timespec).
> 
> Rename clock_get() callback into clock_get_timespec() as a preparation

s/clock_get()/the clock_get()/
s/into/to/

> for introducing clock_get_ktime().

Otherwise this looks fine.

Thanks,

	tglx