From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.24]:56112 "EHLO mout.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752786AbbFATyX (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Jun 2015 15:54:23 -0400 From: Arnd Bergmann To: Tina Ruchandani Cc: y2038@lists.linaro.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Shuah Khan , Akihiro Tsukada Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] [media] dvb-frontend: Replace timeval with ktime_t Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2015 21:54:18 +0200 Message-ID: <3326613.N7IomTdCIE@wuerfel> In-Reply-To: <20150531071706.GA3940@tinar> References: <20150531071706.GA3940@tinar> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 > Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann > > Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann