On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 11:32 +0800, Gu Zheng wrote: > On 05/14/2013 11:57 PM, John Stultz wrote: > > > On 05/14/2013 12:45 AM, Gu Zheng wrote: > >> From 18072c1c3506a7e37ee485307a2c343efe5af4d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > >> From: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >> Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 15:45:24 +0900 > >> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Kernel/time: Introduce a new timestamp function local_time_seconds() > >> > >> Introduce a new timestamp function local_time_seconds() to hide the conversion of system time in UTC to local time seconds. > > > > So, why is this useful/needed? > > Hi John, > There are some subsystems use local time seconds as a timestamp, > such as scsi(refer > to:http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg66089.html), > and so do many out-of-kernel-tree code I think. I don't think the 3ware drivers, which are the only ones that do this actually care. I think jiffies to seconds would suit the event timestamps equally well, so I don't really see a need to make this a formal kernel export given that it's only a single driver family in the entirety of the kernel. James -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
