netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] net: rework SIOCGSTAMP ioctl handling

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Date:   Wed, 17 Apr 2019 11:59:55 +0200
From:   Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@...gutronix.de>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
        Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
        Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@...il.com>,
        Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@...tkopp.net>,
        Gerrit Renker <gerrit@....abdn.ac.uk>,
        Alexander Aring <alex.aring@...il.com>,
        Stefan Schmidt <stefan@...enfreihafen.org>,
        Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>,
        Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
        Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>,
        Andrew Hendry <andrew.hendry@...il.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>,
        Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-hams@...r.kernel.org, linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-can@...r.kernel.org, dccp@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-wpan@...r.kernel.org, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-x25@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] net: rework SIOCGSTAMP ioctl handling

On 4/16/19 10:32 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The SIOCGSTAMP/SIOCGSTAMPNS ioctl commands are implemented by many
> socket protocol handlers, and all of those end up calling the same
> sock_get_timestamp()/sock_get_timestampns() helper functions, which
> results in a lot of duplicate code.
> 
> With the introduction of 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures, this
> gets worse, as we then need four different ioctl commands in each
> socket protocol implementation.
> 
> To simplify that, let's add a new .gettstamp() operation in
> struct proto_ops, and move ioctl implementation into the common
> sock_ioctl()/compat_sock_ioctl_trans() functions that these all go
> through.
> 
> We can reuse the sock_get_timestamp() implementation, but generalize
> it so it can deal with both native and compat mode, as well as
> timeval and timespec structures.
> 
> Acked-by: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@...enfreihafen.org>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAK8P3a038aDQQotzua_QtKGhq8O9n+rdiz2=WDCp82ys8eUT+A@mail.gmail.com/
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

For the CAN part:

Acked-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@...gutronix.de>

regards,
Marc

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