From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kalle Valo Subject: Re: [v3] prism54: isl_38xx: Replace 'struct timeval' Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 09:10:14 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <20160426091014.6ADE46120F@smtp.codeaurora.org> References: <20160413060916.GA21184@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Arnd Bergmann , y2038@lists.linaro.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Tina Ruchandani Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20160413060916.GA21184@localhost> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org > '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 > Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann Thanks, applied to wireless-drivers-next.git. Kalle Valo