linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 1/7] sound: Replace timespec with timespec64

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Date:   Thu, 21 Sep 2017 12:02:20 +0200
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...aro.org>
Cc:     Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>,
        Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@...amocchi.jp>,
        SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>, jeeja.kp@...el.com,
        Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>, dharageswari.r@...el.com,
        guneshwor.o.singh@...el.com, Bhumika Goyal <bhumirks@...il.com>,
        gudishax.kranthikumar@...el.com, Naveen M <naveen.m@...el.com>,
        hardik.t.shah@...el.com, Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@...il.com>,
        fabf@...net.be, Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@...il.com>,
        alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/7] sound: Replace timespec with timespec64

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 8:18 AM, Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...aro.org> wrote:
> Since timespec is not year 2038 safe on 32bit system, and we need to
> convert all timespec variables to timespec64 type for sound subsystem.
>
> This patch is used to do preparation for following patches, that will
> convert all structures defined in uapi/sound/asound.h to use 64-bit
> time_t.
>
> Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...aro.org>

Looks good to me. This could perhaps be split up further, but it
seems small enough to get merged as a single patch.

     Arnd