linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v2 2/9] time: Provide y2106 safe get

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Date:	Tue, 13 Jan 2015 21:34:19 +0100
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@...ertech.it>
Cc:	Xunlei Pang <xlpang@....com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@...aro.org>,
	rtc-linux@...glegroups.com, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Xunlei Pang <pang.xunlei@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 2/9] time: Provide y2106 safe get_seconds() replacement

On Tuesday 13 January 2015 17:17:44 Alessandro Zummo wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jan 2015 23:44:50 +0800
> Xunlei Pang <xlpang@....com> wrote:
> 
> > -EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_seconds);
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_seconds64);
> 
>  Please leave get_seconds untouched
> 

The patch leaves it in place. However, we already have ktime_get_seconds()
and ktime_get_real_seconds(). Code that currently uses get_seconds can
trivially be converted to the latter.

	Arnd
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