time: add function to convert between calendar time and broken-down time for universa...
authorZhaolei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:10 +0000 (15:56 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:20:56 +0000 (07:20 -0700)
commit57f1f0874f426a9bdfc5cd3f886113dd5cd17834
treef7938f5c195f7733543d3d86c6ae3c902fd7adef
parentef1ff6b8c08954bc203b59e887d1e580dd91755a
time: add function to convert between calendar time and broken-down time for universal use

There are many similar code in kernel for one object: convert time between
calendar time and broken-down time.

Here is some source I found:
  fs/ncpfs/dir.c
  fs/smbfs/proc.c
  fs/fat/misc.c
  fs/udf/udftime.c
  fs/cifs/netmisc.c
  net/netfilter/xt_time.c
  drivers/scsi/ips.c
  drivers/input/misc/hp_sdc_rtc.c
  drivers/rtc/rtc-lib.c
  arch/ia64/hp/sim/boot/fw-emu.c
  arch/m68k/mac/misc.c
  arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
  arch/parisc/include/asm/rtc.h
  ...

We can make a common function for this type of conversion, At least we
can get following benefit:

1: Make kernel simple and unify
2: Easy to fix bug in converting code
3: Reduce clone of code in future
   For example, I'm trying to make ftrace display walltime,
   this patch will make me easy.

This code is based on code from glibc-2.6

Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/time.h
kernel/time/Makefile
kernel/time/timeconv.c [new file with mode: 0644]