From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Brauner Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/23] y2038: uapi: change __kernel_time_t to __kernel_old_time_t Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 13:38:32 +0100 Message-ID: <20191111123830.du25cahvat4ahg54@wittgenstein> References: <20191108210236.1296047-1-arnd@arndb.de> <20191108211323.1806194-1-arnd@arndb.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20191108211323.1806194-1-arnd@arndb.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: y2038@lists.linaro.org, John Stultz , Thomas Gleixner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Boyd , David Howells , Al Viro , Deepa Dinamani , Christian Brauner , linux-api@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 10:12:09PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > This is mainly a patch for clarification, and to let us remove > the time_t definition from the kernel to prevent new users from > creeping in that might not be y2038-safe. > > All remaining uses of 'time_t' or '__kernel_time_t' are part of > the user API that cannot be changed by that either have a > replacement or that do not suffer from the y2038 overflow. > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Acked-by: Christian Brauner