On Fri, 3 Sep 2010, Richard Cochran wrote: > Recently on the lkml, we discussed how to allow adjustment of posix > clocks. I have tried to understand and implement the ideas expressed > in the various threads. > > If there is agreement on this approach, I will resubmit these two > patches as part of a longer series, including support for a new kind > of hardware clock, so you can see how it all fits together. But first, > I would like to concentrate on the new syscall itself. > > The patches are against a recent net-next tree. Please don't worry if > the syscall tables are not quite up to date. I can fix that later. Could you explain why the existing interfaces are not sufficient that do what you describe? man adjtime man adjtimex man clock_settime ? Why would you need this to support a new hardware clock? You want the clock to run at a different speed from system time? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html