From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: Amitoj Kaur Chawla <amitoj1606@gmail.com>,
outreachy-kernel@googlegroups.com,
linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, y2038@lists.linaro.org
Subject: Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH v2] firewire: Replace timeval with timespec64
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2015 15:43:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <60126456.tuWtDFJgLx@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151105143448.302d85e9@kant>
On Thursday 05 November 2015 14:34:48 Stefan Richter wrote:
> On Oct 22 Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Thursday 22 October 2015 04:05:00 Amitoj Kaur Chawla wrote:
> > > 32 bit systems using 'struct timeval' will break in the year 2038, so
> > > we replace the code appropriately. However, this driver is not broken
> > > in 2038 since we are using only the microseconds portion of the
> > > current time.
> > >
> > > This patch replaces timeval with timespec64.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Amitoj Kaur Chawla <amitoj1606@gmail.com>
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> >
> > (adding the y2038 mailing list as well)
>
> Committed to linux1394.git.
> Arnd, do you have special y2038 plans that make it desirable to have this
> merged before v4.4? Otherwise I would submit it for v4.5-rc1.
4.5-rc1 is fine.
Arnd
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-05 14:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-21 22:35 [PATCH v2] firewire: Replace timeval with timespec64 Amitoj Kaur Chawla
2015-10-21 22:58 ` [Outreachy kernel] " Arnd Bergmann
2015-10-22 13:07 ` Stefan Richter
2015-10-22 13:17 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-11-05 13:34 ` [Outreachy kernel] " Stefan Richter
2015-11-05 14:43 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
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