From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
"James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com>,
y2038@lists.linaro.org
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH] qla2xxx: Remove use of 'struct timeval'
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2015 17:33:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <29048575.f8WbWFRGLG@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151030091526.GA4028@tina-laptop>
On Friday 30 October 2015 02:15:26 Tina Ruchandani wrote:
> struct register_host_info stores a 64-bit UTC system time timestamp.
> This patch removes the use of 'struct timeval' to obtain that timestamp
> as its tv_sec value will overflow on 32-bit systems in year 2038 beyond.
> The patch uses ktime_get_real_seconds() which returns a 64-bit seconds value.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@gmail.com>
>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
and picked up into my y2038 tree for now.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-05 16:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-30 9:15 [RESEND PATCH] qla2xxx: Remove use of 'struct timeval' Tina Ruchandani
2015-10-30 9:36 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2015-11-05 16:33 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
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