From: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
To: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@gmail.com>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: y2038@lists.linaro.org,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>,
linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fbdev: radeon: Remove 'struct timeval' usage
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 07:51:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55D586FE.6070303@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150525040716.GA4448@tinar>
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Hi Tina,
On 25/05/15 07:07, Tina Ruchandani wrote:
> 'struct timeval' uses a 32-bit representation for the
> seconds field which will overflow in the year 2038 and beyond.
> This patch replaces the usage of 'struct timeval' with
> ktime_t which uses a 64-bit time representation and does not
> suffer from the y2038 problem. This patch is part of a larger
> effort to remove all instances of 'struct timeval', 'struct
> timespec', time_t and other 32-bit timekeeping variables
> from the kernel.
> The patch also replaces the use of real time (do_gettimeofday)
> with monotonic time (ktime_get).
>
> Signed-off-by: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@gmail.com>
I had dropped this from 4.2 as there were issues reported, but forgot to
write a mail about it...
Can you send a updated patch with the issues fixed?
Tomi
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From: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
To: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@gmail.com>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: <y2038@lists.linaro.org>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>,
<linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fbdev: radeon: Remove 'struct timeval' usage
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 10:51:26 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55D586FE.6070303@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150525040716.GA4448@tinar>
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Hi Tina,
On 25/05/15 07:07, Tina Ruchandani wrote:
> 'struct timeval' uses a 32-bit representation for the
> seconds field which will overflow in the year 2038 and beyond.
> This patch replaces the usage of 'struct timeval' with
> ktime_t which uses a 64-bit time representation and does not
> suffer from the y2038 problem. This patch is part of a larger
> effort to remove all instances of 'struct timeval', 'struct
> timespec', time_t and other 32-bit timekeeping variables
> from the kernel.
> The patch also replaces the use of real time (do_gettimeofday)
> with monotonic time (ktime_get).
>
> Signed-off-by: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@gmail.com>
I had dropped this from 4.2 as there were issues reported, but forgot to
write a mail about it...
Can you send a updated patch with the issues fixed?
Tomi
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-20 7:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-25 4:07 [PATCH] fbdev: radeon: Remove 'struct timeval' usage Tina Ruchandani
2015-05-25 4:19 ` Tina Ruchandani
2015-06-03 11:59 ` Tomi Valkeinen
2015-06-03 11:59 ` Tomi Valkeinen
2015-06-05 4:40 ` Dave Airlie
2015-06-05 4:40 ` Dave Airlie
2015-06-05 7:55 ` Tina Ruchandani
2015-06-05 7:55 ` Tina Ruchandani
2015-06-05 21:12 ` [Y2038] " Arnd Bergmann
2015-06-05 21:12 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-08-20 7:51 ` Tomi Valkeinen [this message]
2015-08-20 7:51 ` Tomi Valkeinen
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