Subject: Re: HEADS UP: timecounters (branch simonb-timecounters) merged into
To: Valeriy E. Ushakov <uwe@ptc.spbu.ru>
From: Frank Kardel <kardel@netbsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 06/16/2006 09:25:27
Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:

>On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 01:10:26 +0200, Frank Kardel wrote:
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>>The FreeBSD implementation of Poul-Henning Kamp's timecounters
>>was ported and committed to NetBSD-current.
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>Are struct bintime and relevant inline functions intended to be
>visible outside kernel?
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>PS: #endif /* __BSD_VISIBLE */ doesn't match the ifdef.
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>SY, Uwe
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No, there is no public interface for that right now. Ideally we would
convert all kernel internal time stamps to struct bintime and just
convert them 'at the edges' to the expected format, but thats
another rototill. Userland currently has no access to struct bintime.

Frank