linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scsi: arcmsr: avoid do

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Date:   Mon, 22 Jan 2018 19:31:45 -0500
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        Ching Huang <ching2048@...ca.com.tw>, y2038@...ts.linaro.org,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: arcmsr: avoid do_gettimeofday


Arnd,

> The arcmsr uses its own implementation of time_to_tm(), along with
> do_gettimeofday() to read the current time. While the algoritm used
> here is fine in principle, it suffers from two problems:

Applied to 4.16/scsi-queue. Thanks!

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering