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From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] scsi: 3ware: use 64-bit times for FW time sync
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 22:06:52 -0500
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Arnd,

> The calculation of the number of seconds since Sunday 00:00:00
> overflows in 2106, meaning that we instead will return the seconds
> since Wednesday 06:28:16 afterwards.
>
> Using 64-bit time stamps avoids this slight inconsistency, and the
> deprecated do_gettimeofday(), replacing it with the simpler
> ktime_get_real_seconds().

Applied to 4.16/scsi-queue.

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering