Re: firewire: CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW exposure

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 01:34:21PM +0200, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > I wonder why firewire exposed CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW to user space.
> >
> > What's the purpose of that? CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW is the raw time based
> > on the initial frequency setup of the clocksource. That can be quite
> > off from the NTP corrected frequency which is exposed by
> > CLOCK_MONOTONIC.
> 
> The purpose is to get a stable clock, i.e., to avoid clock rate changes
> caused by NTP corrections.

That's maybe half an answer; what do you need that for?

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