From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] atm: mpoa: remove 32-bit timekeeping
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 09:27:31 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <20171130.092731.1542035335410279111.davem@davemloft.net>
References: <20171127140337.3622068-1-arnd@arndb.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Cc: y2038@lists.linaro.org, 3chas3@gmail.com,
        linux-atm-general@lists.sourceforge.net, ruchandani.tina@gmail.com,
        netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
To: arnd@arndb.de
Return-path: <linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org>
In-Reply-To: <20171127140337.3622068-1-arnd@arndb.de>
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 15:02:17 +0100

> From: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@gmail.com>
> 
> net/atm/mpoa_* files use 'struct timeval' to store event
> timestamps. struct timeval uses a 32-bit seconds field which will
> overflow in the year 2038 and beyond. Morever, the timestamps are being
> compared only to get seconds elapsed, so struct timeval which stores
> a seconds and microseconds field is an overkill. This patch replaces
> the use of struct timeval with time64_t to store a 64-bit seconds field.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

Applied.