linux-kernel - Re: powerpc: eeh: stop using do

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Date:   Wed,  8 Nov 2017 10:30:23 +1100 (AEDT)
From:   Michael Ellerman <patch-notifications@...erman.id.au>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Russell Currey <ruscur@...sell.cc>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, y2038@...ts.linaro.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@...abs.ru>,
        Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@....ibm.com>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: powerpc: eeh: stop using do_gettimeofday()

On Sat, 2017-11-04 at 21:26:52 UTC, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> This interface is inefficient and deprecated because of the y2038
> overflow.
> 
> ktime_get_seconds() is an appropriate replacement here, since it
> has sufficient granularity but is more efficient and uses monotonic
> time.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@....ibm.com>
> Acked-by: Russell Currey <ruscur@...sell.cc>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/edfd17ff39bce59886e8249e645d6e

cheers