From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@gmail.com>
Cc: MPT-FusionLinux.pdl@broadcom.com, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
y2038@lists.linaro.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
suganath-prabu.subramani@avagotech.com,
Chaitra P B <chaitra.basappa@broadcom.com>,
Sreekanth Reddy <sreekanth.reddy@avagotech.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mpt3sas: Remove usage of 'struct timeval'
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 22:48:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq1inzjsi2v.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160413070140.GA35235@localhost> (Tina Ruchandani's message of "Wed, 13 Apr 2016 00:01:40 -0700")
>>>>> "Tina" == Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@gmail.com> writes:
Tina> 'struct timeval' will have its tv_sec value overflow on 32-bit
Tina> systems in year 2038 and beyond. This patch replaces the use of
Tina> struct timeval for computing mpi_request.TimeStamp, and instead
Tina> uses ktime_t which provides 64-bit seconds value. The timestamp
Tina> computed remains unaffected (milliseconds since Unix epoch).
Broadcom folks, please review.
--
Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-15 2:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-13 7:01 [PATCH] mpt3sas: Remove usage of 'struct timeval' Tina Ruchandani
2016-04-15 2:48 ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
2016-04-15 17:43 ` Sathya Prakash Veerichetty
2016-04-15 7:16 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2016-04-15 20:20 ` Martin K. Petersen
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