[PATCH v6 0/8] ptp: IEEE 1588 hardware clock support

[Richard Cochran]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 09:36:54PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Drop the clockid_t and swap it for a file handle like a proper Unix or
> Linux interface. The rest is much the same
> 
> 	fd = open /sys/class/timesource/[whatever]
> 
> 	various queries you may want to do to check the name etc
> 
> 	fclock_adjtime(fd, ...)

Okay, but lets extend the story:

	clock_getttime(fd, ...);

	clock_settime(fd, ...);

	timer_create(fd, ...);

Can you agree to that as well?

(We would need to ensure that 'fd' avoids the range 0 to MAX_CLOCKS).

Richard