From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: Remove use of struct timeval Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2015 16:01:01 +0100 Message-ID: <3236510.R0yD7CL6Ln@wuerfel> References: <20150204030448.GA3666@tinar> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Return-path: Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.187]:53633 "EHLO mout.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966438AbbBDPBI (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2015 10:01:08 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20150204030448.GA3666@tinar> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Tina Ruchandani Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, "James E.J. Bottomley" On Wednesday 04 February 2015 08:34:48 Tina Ruchandani wrote: > Function stex_gettime uses 'struct timeval' whose tv_sec value > will overflow on 32-bit systems in year 2038 and beyond. This patch > replaces the use of struct timeval and do_gettimeofday with > ktime_get_real_seconds, which returns a 64-bit seconds value. > > Signed-off-by: Tina Ruchandani > Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann The patch looks good, but please send it again with a proper subject that mentions the name of the driver. Arnd