linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fbdev: radeon: Remove 'struct timeval' usage

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Date:	Thu, 20 Aug 2015 10:51:26 +0300
From:	Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...com>
To:	Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@...il.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
CC:	<y2038@...ts.linaro.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@...osoft.com>,
	<linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fbdev: radeon: Remove 'struct timeval' usage

Hi Tina,

On 25/05/15 07:07, Tina Ruchandani wrote:
> 'struct timeval' uses a 32-bit representation for the
> seconds field which will overflow in the year 2038 and beyond.
> This patch replaces the usage of 'struct timeval' with
> ktime_t which uses a 64-bit time representation and does not
> suffer from the y2038 problem. This patch is part of a larger
> effort to remove all instances of 'struct timeval', 'struct
> timespec', time_t and other 32-bit timekeeping variables
> from the kernel.
> The patch also replaces the use of real time (do_gettimeofday)
> with monotonic time (ktime_get).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@...il.com>

I had dropped this from 4.2 as there were issues reported, but forgot to
write a mail about it...

Can you send a updated patch with the issues fixed?

 Tomi


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