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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] [RESEND] jffs2: use 64-bit intermediate timestamps
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 22:47:13 +0200
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Am Freitag, 13. Juli 2018, 16:47:16 CEST schrieb Arnd Bergmann:
> The VFS now uses timespec64 timestamps consistently, but jffs2 still
> converts them to 32-bit numbers on the storage medium. As the helper
> functions for the conversion (get_seconds() and timespec_to_timespec64())
> are now deprecated, let's change them over to the more modern
> replacements.
> 
> This keeps the traditional interpretation of those values, where
> the on-disk 32-bit numbers are taken to be negative numbers, i.e.
> dates before 1970, on 32-bit machines, but future numbers past 2038
> on 64-bit machines.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> ---
> I originally sent these two patches on Jun 19, but got no reply aside
> from a harmless sparse warning reported by the kbuild test robot.
> 
> Looking at the git history for jffs2, it seems that David Woodhouse
> hasn't applied any patches for over two years, so I suppose he's
> not taking these either.
> 
> Al or Andrew, could you pick these up instead?

We can carry it also via the MTD tree.

Thanks,
//richard