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Message-ID: <55D586FE.6070303@ti.com>
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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