linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/5] net: fec: initialize clock with 0 rather than current kernel time

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Date:   Wed, 08 Jul 2020 15:14:34 +0300
From:   Sergey Organov <sorganov@...il.com>
To:     Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>
Cc:     Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Fugang Duan <fugang.duan@....com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH  3/5] net: fec: initialize clock with 0 rather than
 current kernel time

Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com> writes:

> On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 08:56:41PM +0300, Sergey Organov wrote:
>> It won't. Supposedly it'd force clock (that doesn't tick by default and
>> stays at 0) to start ticking.
>
> No existing clockid_t has this behavior.  Consider CLOCK_REALTIME or
> CLOCK_MONOTONIC.
>  
> The PHC must act the same as the other POSIX clocks.

Yeah, that's a good argument!

Thanks,
-- Sergey