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From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
To: intel-wired-lan@osuosl.org
Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH 03/12] net: igb: avoid using timespec
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 09:47:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151002074716.GA3930@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1803983.ImzkvzgWES@wuerfel>

On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 10:01:57PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> I tried to use this pattern whenever I convert the 64-bit 'long long'
> tv_sec member of 'struct timespec64' into a 32-bit number, to annotate
> the loss of range.

Sounds reasonable to me.
 
> I have thought about defining separate helpers like this
...
> This would make it even more explicit, but my fear was that I was
> adding too much complexity like that.

I think a cast plus a comment when needed is clear enough.

Thanks,
Richard

  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-02  7:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-30 11:26 [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH 00/12] net: assorted y2038 changes Arnd Bergmann
2015-09-30 11:26 ` [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH 03/12] net: igb: avoid using timespec Arnd Bergmann
2015-10-01 19:17   ` Richard Cochran
2015-10-01 20:01     ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-10-02  7:47       ` Richard Cochran [this message]
2015-10-05 10:17 ` [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH 00/12] net: assorted y2038 changes David Miller

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