From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756886AbbJATIi (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Oct 2015 15:08:38 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f170.google.com ([209.85.212.170]:34590 "EHLO mail-wi0-f170.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752232AbbJATIg (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Oct 2015 15:08:36 -0400 Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 21:08:29 +0200 From: Richard Cochran To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, y2038@lists.linaro.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" , Giuseppe Cavallaro Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/12] net: stmmac: avoid using timespec Message-ID: <20151001190829.GB1872@localhost.localdomain> References: <1443612402-3000775-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> <1443612402-3000775-3-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1443612402-3000775-3-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 01:26:32PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > We want to deprecate the use of 'struct timespec' on 32-bit > architectures, as it is will overflow in 2038. The stmmac > driver uses it to read the current time, and can simply > be changed to use ktime_get_real_ts64() instead. > > Because of hardware limitations, there is still an overflow > in year 2106, which we cannot really avoid, but this documents > the overflow. > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Acked-by: Richard Cochran