From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@gmail.com>
Cc: y2038@lists.linaro.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Shuah Khan <shuah.kh@samsung.com>,
Akihiro Tsukada <tskd08@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] [media] dvb-frontend: Replace timeval with ktime_t
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2015 21:54:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3326613.N7IomTdCIE@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150531071706.GA3940@tinar>
On Sunday 31 May 2015 12:47:06 Tina Ruchandani wrote:
> struct timeval uses a 32-bit seconds representation which will
> overflow in the year 2038 and beyond. This patch replaces
> the usage of struct timeval with ktime_t which is a 64-bit
> timestamp and is year 2038 safe.
> This patch is part of a larger attempt to remove all instances
> of 32-bit timekeeping variables (timeval, timespec, time_t)
> which are not year 2038 safe, from the kernel.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@gmail.com>
> Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@arndb.de>
>
>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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2015-05-31 7:17 [PATCH v3] [media] dvb-frontend: Replace timeval with ktime_t Tina Ruchandani
2015-06-01 19:54 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
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