[dvblast-devel] Release ?

[Marian Ďurkovič]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 04:20:53PM +0100, Christophe Massiot wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am considering adding support for clock_nanosleep and other POSIX.2001
> functions such as clock_gettime instead of gettimeofday, to avoid,
> thanks to the monotonic clock, jitter due to NTP and stuff. We aren't
> much concerned about this since it is mainly used in init code (delays),
> and RTP timestamps. The interface is available since Linux 2.6 so I
> think it is pretty safe.
> 
> Any opinion ? Do we release before or after ?

I'd prefer to release before that, with the current source we're compatible
back to 2.4.20 and DVB-1.0 drivers and this will raise the requirements to
2.6 kernel. If ntpd is not running, the normal clock is monotonic as well.

   With kind regards,

        M.