[PATCH weston] Make backends always specify output repaint time

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Sat, 6 Apr 2013 09:43:11 +0200
renoX <renozyx at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I don't understand why weston or the backends use gettimeofday instead of a
> monotonic time: doesn't this add work to all the clients to be able to be
> robust to time going into the past of things like that?

Yes, they should be using monotonic time. Using gettimeofday() can
be considered a bug, IMHO. But what is more important than using
monotonic time, is to use one clock domain consistently.

Clients should just assume monotonic timestamps in an arbitrary
clock domain.


Thanks,
pq