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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