Re: [PATCH RFC 2/8] clock device: convert clock_gettime

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On Tuesday 09 November 2010, john stultz wrote:
> I wonder thought if it would be worth having a syscall to convert from
> fd to clock_id so it could be more flexible in the future. But it may
> not be worth it, as we're probably already limited by the cpuclock
> implementation.

If the file descriptor comes from a character device, we don't even need
a syscall, it could simply be an ioctl on the device.

	Arnd
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