linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/19] converting system calls to 64-bit time

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Message-ID: <1430990693.8171.70.camel@x220>
Date:	Thu, 07 May 2015 11:24:53 +0200
From:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	y2038@...ts.linaro.org, baolin.wang@...aro.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
	albert.aribaud@...ev.fr, john.stultz@...aro.org,
	bamvor.zhangjian@...aro.org, ruchandani.tina@...il.com,
	linux-api@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	libc-alpha@...rceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/19] converting system calls to 64-bit time_t, part 1

On Thu, 2015-05-07 at 10:52 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 07 May 2015 09:39:18 Paul Bolle wrote:
> I realize the downsides of not posting the entire series at once
> here, but it seemed better to avoid spamming everyone too much,
> while I try to find out if we have agreement on the overall
> strategy.

That downside is worse when people only quickly skim your message for
clues while thinking about the problem they _think_ they've spotted
(like I did).

> For reference, see below for the ARM patch.

> > And then it occurred to me to check the y2038-syscalls git branch you
> > referenced. After which the above made much more sense. (Though my
> > remark that ARCH_HAS_COMPAT_TIME simply functions as an alias for COMPAT
> > also seems to hold for that branch.)
> 
> Right, in fact both of these happen at the end of the git tree.

Still, you might consider making ARCH_HAS_COMPAT_TIME a plain bool and
adding "select ARCH_HAS_COMPAT_TIME" to the eight or so COMPAT entries.
But, clearly, I'm now wasting even more of your time by trying to save
face here.

Thanks,


Paul Bolle

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