From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754541AbbI3H0T (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Sep 2015 03:26:19 -0400 Received: from www.linutronix.de ([62.245.132.108]:56922 "EHLO Galois.linutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754279AbbI3H0S (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Sep 2015 03:26:18 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 09:25:39 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Arnd Bergmann cc: y2038@lists.linaro.org, John Stultz , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rodolfo Giometti , linux-net-drivers@solarflare.com, Shradha Shah , Richard Cochran Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] ntp/pps: use y2038 safe types in pps_event_time In-Reply-To: <1443471692-2946597-5-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> Message-ID: References: <1443471692-2946597-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> <1443471692-2946597-5-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (DEB 23 2013-08-11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Linutronix-Spam-Score: -1.0 X-Linutronix-Spam-Level: - X-Linutronix-Spam-Status: No , -1.0 points, 5.0 required, ALL_TRUSTED=-1,SHORTCIRCUIT=-0.0001,URIBL_BLOCKED=0.001 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 28 Sep 2015, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > The pps_event_time uses two 'timespec' structures internally, which > suffer from the y2038 problem. The uses of this structure are > fairly self-contained in the pps code, so this replaces them all at > once. > > Unfortunately, this includes the sfc ethernet driver aside from the > pps subsystem, so we change that one as well. Both touch the > same data structure, and there probably is no good way to split > the patch into smaller units. > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner