Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:13:18 +0530
> Varun Chandramohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>> The age field of the ipv6 route structures are initilized with the current
>> timeval at the time of route creation. When the route dump is called
>> the route age value stored in the structure is subtracted from the
>> present timeval and the difference is passed on as the route age.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Varun Chandramohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> ---
>> include/net/ip6_fib.h | 1 +
>> include/net/ip6_route.h | 3 +++
>> net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 5 +++++
>> net/ipv6/route.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++----
>> 4 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/net/ip6_fib.h b/include/net/ip6_fib.h
>> index c48ea87..e30a1cf 100644
>> --- a/include/net/ip6_fib.h
>> +++ b/include/net/ip6_fib.h
>> @@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ struct rt6_info
>>
>> u32 rt6i_flags;
>> u32 rt6i_metric;
>> + time_t rt6i_age;
>> atomic_t rt6i_ref;
>> struct fib6_table *rt6i_table;
>>
>> diff --git a/include/net/ip6_route.h b/include/net/ip6_route.h
>> index 5456fdd..fc9716c 100644
>> --- a/include/net/ip6_route.h
>> +++ b/include/net/ip6_route.h
>> @@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ struct route_info {
>> #define RT6_LOOKUP_F_REACHABLE 0x2
>> #define RT6_LOOKUP_F_HAS_SADDR 0x4
>>
>> +#define RT6_SET_ROUTE_INFO 0x0
>> +#define RT6_GET_ROUTE_INFO 0x1
>> +
>> extern struct rt6_info ip6_null_entry;
>>
>> #ifdef CONFIG_IPV6_MULTIPLE_TABLES
>> diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
>> index 5a5f8bd..715c766 100644
>> --- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
>> +++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
>> @@ -4187,6 +4187,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_inet6addr_notif
>>
>> int __init addrconf_init(void)
>> {
>> + struct timeval tv;
>> int err = 0;
>>
>> /* The addrconf netdev notifier requires that loopback_dev
>> @@ -4214,10 +4215,14 @@ int __init addrconf_init(void)
>> if (err)
>> return err;
>>
>> + do_gettimeofday(&tv);
>>
>
> Better to use ktime_t or timespec in new code.
>
You are saying not to use timeval as its going to be removed sometime in
future? If not, may i know why should we use timespec or ktime?
I need only seconds granularity so i was wondering if that matters.
Regards,
Varun
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