[PATCH] rtc: Allow rtc drivers to specify the tv_nsec value for ntp

Alexandre Belloni alexandre.belloni at free-electrons.com
Mon Nov 27 10:44:11 PST 2017


On 27/11/2017 at 17:52:54 +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> I'm actually rather disappointed that Alexandre Belloni has only now
> brought up his dis-satisfaction with the approach after all the effort
> that Jason and myself have put in to it.  It's not like Alexandre was
> not copied on the patches and discussion.
> 
> If Alexandre could not be bothered to bring up his concerns while the
> discussion was on-going in September, and didn't bother raising them
> in October, I'd say that Alexandre's opinion at this point doesn't
> count for much - if it wasn't important to state at the time or for
> a couple of months after, why does it become important to state after
> the thing has been merged.
> 
> Maybe the idea here is basically to waste people's time letting them
> develop a patch for an approach, and then object at the last minute
> to that approach.  Hardly seems fair or even reasonable.
> 

How unfair that is! Really, you are not in a position to make that kind
of comment because you are not even replying to patches in your own
subsystem. But maybe my time doesn't count as much as yours.

I was going to go for a middle ground but now, I'm really more inclined
to just revert the whole stuff.

-- 
Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com



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