Re: [PATCH 00/19] converting system calls to 64-bit time_t, part 1

[Paul Bolle <pebolle-IWqWACnzNjzz+pZb47iToQ@public.gmane.org>]

On Wed, 2015-05-06 at 18:30 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> * After all system calls are converted, we can change one architecture
>   at a time to select ARCH_HAS_COMPAT_TIME, and modify its system
>   call table accordingly. In this version, I do it for ARM32, x86-32,
>   and x86-64 for demonstration purposes.

Perhaps this was correct for your first draft. Because this series adds
ARCH_HAS_COMPAT_TIME in 04/19, but it doesn't add any selects of that
symbol, does it? As far as I can see ARCH_HAS_COMPAT_TIME simply
functions as an alias for COMPAT in this series.

> * A follow-up series changes over all other architectures.
> 
> * The last patch in the series changes the CONFIG_COMPAT_TIME
>   Kconfig symbol to be user visible. Disabling this symbol will
>   get you a kernel that intentionally breaks support for old tasks
>   in order to provide an interface that will survive 2038.

This doesn't happen in 19/19, or in any other patch in this series.
Maybe also something that has changed since the first draft.

>   This is meant mostly as a debugging help for now, to let people
>   build a y2038 safe distro, but at some point in the 2030s, we
>   should remove that option and all the compat handling.

Thanks,


Paul Bolle