Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] ptp/clcok:Introduce the setktime/getktime interfaces with "ktime_t" type

From: Arnd Bergmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 02:16:41 +0100

On Friday 20 March 2015, Richard Cochran wrote:
> Instead of changing to ktime_t, just use timespec64 instead.  That
> way, each change will be a couple of lines per file.

This was the first idea, but it seems a bit silly when all the drivers
use a 64-bit nanosecond value just like ktime_t. While both of the
current users require a timespec at the moment, it's possible that
there would one day be a third user that actually can make sense of
a ktime_t, and then we'd avoid the expensive back-and-forth conversion.

For now, using ktime_t in the interface merely simplifies the drivers
by moving the conversion into the subsystem, but it is not any more
or less efficient than the previous method.

> > I do agree however that we should merge the entire series at once so
> > we end up with a reasonable state afterwards, and we only need the conditional
> > in order to have a bisectable git history.
> 
> It is still bisectable with one or two patches.

Of course, but it would be rather bad style.

	Arnd