linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/12] net: fec: avoid timespec use

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Message-ID: <20151001190807.GA1872@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Thu, 1 Oct 2015 21:08:08 +0200
From:	Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, y2038@...ts.linaro.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Fugang Duan <b38611@...escale.com>,
	Luwei Zhou <b45643@...escale.com>,
	Frank Li <Frank.Li@...escale.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/12] net: fec: avoid timespec use

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 01:26:31PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The fec_ptp_enable_pps uses an open-coded implementation of ns_to_timespec,
> which will be removed eventually as it is not y2038-safe on 32-bit
> architectures. Two more instances of the same code in this file were
> already converted to use the safe ns_to_timespec64 in commit 6630514fcee
> ("ptp: fec: use helpers for converting ns to timespec"), this changes
> the last one as well.
> 
> The seconds portion here is actually unused and we could just remove the
> timespec variable, but using ns_to_timespec64 can still be better as the
> implementation can be hand-optimized in the future.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

Acked-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>
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