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Message-ID: <20100904140639.GA22074@riccoc20.at.omicron.at> Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2010 16:06:39 +0200 From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com> To: netdev@...r.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] posix clocks: introduce a syscall for clock tuning. On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 11:29:05AM +0200, Richard Cochran wrote: > A new syscall is introduced that allows tuning of a POSIX clock. The > syscall is implemented for four architectures: arm, blackfin, powerpc, > and x86. > > The new syscall, clock_adjtime, takes two parameters, the clock ID, > and a pointer to a struct timex. The semantics of the timex struct > have been expanded by one additional mode flag, which allows an > absolute offset correction. When specificied, the clock offset is > immediately corrected by skipping to the new time value. Sorry, last sentence should read, "corrected by adding the given time value to the current time value." Richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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