linux-stable.git/include/linux/timecompare.h, branch master Linux kernel stable tree time: remove the timecompare code. 2012-11-01T15:41:35+00:00 Richard Cochran richardcochran@gmail.com 2012-10-31T06:27:25+00:00 65f8f9a1c1db831e5159e3e3e50912d1f214cd0c This patch removes the timecompare code from the kernel. The top five reasons to do this are: 1. There are no more users of this code. 2. The original idea was a bit weak. 3. The original author has disappeared. 4. The code was not general purpose but tuned to a particular hardware, 5. There are better ways to accomplish clock synchronization. Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> Acked-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Tested-by: Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 
This patch removes the timecompare code from the kernel. The top five
reasons to do this are:

1. There are no more users of this code.
2. The original idea was a bit weak.
3. The original author has disappeared.
4. The code was not general purpose but tuned to a particular hardware,
5. There are better ways to accomplish clock synchronization.

Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Acked-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
timecompare: generic infrastructure to map between two time bases 2009-02-16T06:43:32+00:00 Patrick Ohly patrick.ohly@intel.com 2009-02-12T05:03:35+00:00 a75244c3d519fcb490ca2bf3f123c98017f1e8d0 Mapping from a struct timecounter to a time returned by functions like ktime_get_real() is implemented. This is sufficient to use this code in a network device driver which wants to support hardware time stamping and transformation of hardware time stamps to system time. The interface could have been made more versatile by not depending on a time counter, but this wasn't done to avoid writing glue code elsewhere. The method implemented here is the one used and analyzed under the name "assisted PTP" in the LCI PTP paper: http://www.linuxclustersinstitute.org/conferences/archive/2008/PDF/Ohly_92221.pdf Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 
Mapping from a struct timecounter to a time returned by functions like
ktime_get_real() is implemented. This is sufficient to use this code
in a network device driver which wants to support hardware time
stamping and transformation of hardware time stamps to system time.

The interface could have been made more versatile by not depending on
a time counter, but this wasn't done to avoid writing glue code
elsewhere.

The method implemented here is the one used and analyzed under the name
"assisted PTP" in the LCI PTP paper:
http://www.linuxclustersinstitute.org/conferences/archive/2008/PDF/Ohly_92221.pdf

Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>