From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <alessandro.zummo@towertech.it>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.19-rc6 6/6] rtc-omap driver
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 16:09:49 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200611221609.50327.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061121182828.4fc32802.akpm@osdl.org>
On Tuesday 21 November 2006 6:28 pm, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Starting in 2037 or whenever, various things will be breaking...
> >
> > Probably the RTC lib routines should use a time_t, and when that gets
> > changed to 64 bits then things like this will be fixed automagically.
> > Right now they use "unsigned long".
> >
> > I suggest Alessandro handle those issues.
>
> We could simply (ab)use timer_after() here.
We could indeed. But things will still break badly in 2037,
and the timer_after() thing is clearly an incomplete fix.
- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-23 0:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-20 18:14 [patch 2.6.19-rc6 0/6] more rtc framework/driver updates David Brownell
2006-11-20 18:17 ` [patch 2.6.19-rc6 1/6] rtc class /proc/driver/rtc update David Brownell
2006-11-20 23:13 ` Alessandro Zummo
2006-11-21 2:47 ` [Bulk] " David Brownell
2006-11-22 20:37 ` Alessandro Zummo
2006-11-23 0:39 ` David Brownell
2006-11-20 18:19 ` [patch 2.6.19-rc6 2/6] rtc-sa1100 tweaks David Brownell
2006-11-20 22:48 ` Russell King
2006-11-21 1:46 ` David Brownell
2006-11-20 18:22 ` [patch 2.6.19-rc6 3/6] X86_PC optionally creates rtc_cmos platform device David Brownell
2006-11-20 18:27 ` [patch 2.6.19-rc6 5/6] rtc-cmos driver David Brownell
2006-11-20 18:27 ` [patch 2.6.19-rc6 4/6] ACPI exports RTC extensions through platform_data David Brownell
2006-11-20 18:28 ` [patch 2.6.19-rc6 6/6] rtc-omap driver David Brownell
2006-11-20 23:09 ` Alessandro Zummo
2006-11-22 1:19 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-22 2:15 ` David Brownell
2006-11-22 2:28 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-23 0:09 ` David Brownell [this message]
2006-11-22 20:34 ` Alessandro Zummo
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