From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
y2038@lists.linaro.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [v3] prism54: isl_38xx: Replace 'struct timeval'
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 09:10:14 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160426091014.6ADE46120F@smtp.codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160413060916.GA21184@localhost>
> 'struct timeval' uses a 32-bit seconds field which will overflow in
> year 2038 and beyond. This patch is part of a larger effort to remove
> all instances of 'struct timeval' from the kernel and replace them
> with 64-bit timekeeping variables.
> The patch also fixes the debug printf specifier to avoid the
> seconds value being truncated.
> The patch was build-tested / debugged by removing the
> "if VERBOSE > SHOW_ERROR_MESSAGES" guards.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@gmail.com>
> Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Thanks, applied to wireless-drivers-next.git.
Kalle Valo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-26 9:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-13 6:09 [PATCH v3] prism54: isl_38xx: Replace 'struct timeval' Tina Ruchandani
2016-04-13 8:38 ` Johannes Berg
2016-04-13 9:45 ` Arend Van Spriel
2016-04-16 23:34 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-04-17 12:42 ` Johannes Berg
2016-04-17 22:10 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-04-19 8:57 ` Johannes Berg
2016-04-22 18:09 ` Kalle Valo
2016-04-23 1:30 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-04-26 9:10 ` [v3] " Kalle Valo
2016-04-26 9:10 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
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