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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: outreachy-kernel@googlegroups.com
Cc: Amitoj Kaur Chawla <amitoj1606@gmail.com>, y2038@lists.linaro.org
Subject: Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH v2] misc: ibmasm: Replace timeval with timespec64
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 15:39:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <13045188.atJMdLPVso@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151023122206.GA16757@amitoj-Inspiron-3542>

On Friday 23 October 2015 17:52:06 Amitoj Kaur Chawla wrote:
> This patch replaces timeval with timespec64 as 32 bit 'struct timeval'
> will not give current time beyond 2038.
> 
> The patch changes the code to use ktime_get_real_ts64() which returns
> a 'struct timespec64' instead of do_gettimeofday() which returns a
> 'struct timeval'
> 
> This patch also alters the format strings in sprintf() for now.tv_sec and
> now.tv_nsec to incorporate 'long long' on 32 bit architectures and
> leading zeroes respectively.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Amitoj Kaur Chawla <amitoj1606@gmail.com>

Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>


  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-23 13:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-23 12:22 [PATCH v2] misc: ibmasm: Replace timeval with timespec64 Amitoj Kaur Chawla
2015-10-23 13:39 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2015-10-23 13:47   ` [Outreachy kernel] " Arnd Bergmann
2015-10-23 13:58     ` Amitoj Kaur Chawla
2015-10-23 14:21       ` [Y2038] " Arnd Bergmann

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