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Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: eeh: stop using do_gettimeofday()
From: Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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On Sat, 2017-11-04 at 22:26 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> This interface is inefficient and deprecated because of the y2038
> overflow.
> 
> ktime_get_seconds() is an appropriate replacement here, since it
> has sufficient granularity but is more efficient and uses monotonic
> time.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

Acked-by: Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc>