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Message-ID: <3850398.6HZO8LfrIY@wuerfel>
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2015 17:19:55 +0100
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@...il.com>
Cc: linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
y2038 <y2038@...ts.linaro.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] USB: usbmon: Remove timeval usage for timestamp
On Thursday 29 October 2015 22:58:28 Tina Ruchandani wrote:
> struct timeval' uses 32-bits for its seconds field and will overflow in
> the year 2038 and beyond. This patch replaces the usage of 'struct timeval'
> in mon_get_timestamp() with timespec64 which uses a 64-bit seconds field
> and is y2038-safe. mon_get_timestamp() truncates the timestamp at 4096 seconds,
> so the correctness of the code is not affected. This patch is part of a larger
> attempt to remove instances of struct timeval and other 32-bit timekeeping
> (time_t, struct timespec) from the kernel.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@...il.com>
> Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
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