After all, I'd prefer your earlier patchset. Leaving aside the compatibility issue, there's no particular reason we have to re-use the struct timex, which requires otherwise unnecessary conditional branches as well as unit conversions. Don't you agree? -- 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