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Message-ID: <60126456.tuWtDFJgLx@wuerfel> Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2015 15:43:20 +0100 From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de> Cc: Amitoj Kaur Chawla <amitoj1606@...il.com>, outreachy-kernel@...glegroups.com, linux1394-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, y2038@...ts.linaro.org Subject: Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH v2] firewire: Replace timeval with timespec64 On Thursday 05 November 2015 14:34:48 Stefan Richter wrote: > On Oct 22 Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > On Thursday 22 October 2015 04:05:00 Amitoj Kaur Chawla wrote: > > > 32 bit systems using 'struct timeval' will break in the year 2038, so > > > we replace the code appropriately. However, this driver is not broken > > > in 2038 since we are using only the microseconds portion of the > > > current time. > > > > > > This patch replaces timeval with timespec64. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Amitoj Kaur Chawla <amitoj1606@...il.com> > > > > Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> > > > > (adding the y2038 mailing list as well) > > Committed to linux1394.git. > Arnd, do you have special y2038 plans that make it desirable to have this > merged before v4.4? Otherwise I would submit it for v4.5-rc1. 4.5-rc1 is fine. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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