From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1033585AbbKEQhm (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Nov 2015 11:37:42 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:39854 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1033113AbbKEQhk (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Nov 2015 11:37:40 -0500 Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 08:37:39 -0800 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Tina Ruchandani , linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, y2038 Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH] USB: usbmon: Use 64bit timestamp for mon_bin_hdr Message-ID: <20151105163739.GA10136@kroah.com> References: <20151030054431.GA360@google.com> <11025195.jAqGPh9YPj@wuerfel> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <11025195.jAqGPh9YPj@wuerfel> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 05:18:41PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Thursday 29 October 2015 22:44:31 Tina Ruchandani wrote: > > struct mon_bin_hdr allows for a 64-bit seconds timestamp. The code > > currently uses 'struct timeval' to populate the timestamp in mon_bin_hdr, > > which has a 32-bit seconds field and will overflow in year 2038 and beyond. > > This patch replaces 'struct timeval' with 'struct timespec64' which is > > y2038 safe. This patch is part of a larger attempt to remove instances > > of struct timeval and other 32-bit timekeeping (time_t, struct timespec) > > from the kernel. > > > > Signed-off-by: Tina Ruchandani > > Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann > > As the patch is a week old and Greg hasn't picked it up yet, I'm guessing > that he doesn't have it in his queue any more and you should send it once > more with my 'Reviewed-by' tag. It's the merge window, I can't pick anything new up, please be patient and wait for 4.4-rc1 to come out first... thanks, greg k-h