Re: [PATCH] Some clean up of the time code.

[george anzinger]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> george anzinger <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
>>-void do_settimeofday(struct timeval *tv)
>> +int do_settimeofday(struct timespec *tv)
>>  {
>> +	if ((unsigned long)tv->tv_nsec > NSEC_PER_SEC)
>> +		return -EINVAL;
>> +
> 
> 
> Should that be ">="?

Yep, thanks for catching that.
> 
> Is there any reasonable way to avoid breaking existing
> do_settimeofday() implementations? That's just more grief all round.
> 
> 
Of course there is a way.  The question is which way leads to the most 
grief :).  The test could be made in the calling routines, but then it 
would need to be made in both posix-timer.c and time.c.  I suppose it 
would be better to do it that way as both are in common code and the 
"arch" warnning would go away.   Tomorrow...

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