linux-kernel - Re: [Y2038] [PATCH, RESEND 2] qla2xxx: Remove use of 'struct timeval'

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Message-ID: <1700481.AdoIR1LgPH@wuerfel>
Date:	Fri, 22 Jan 2016 16:12:25 +0100
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	y2038@...ts.linaro.org
Cc:	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
	qla2xxx-upstream@...gic.com,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@...n.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@...il.com>,
	Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [Y2038] [PATCH, RESEND 2] qla2xxx: Remove use of 'struct timeval'

On Friday 22 January 2016 15:28:32 Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> struct register_host_info stores a 64-bit UTC system time timestamp.
> This patch removes the use of 'struct timeval' to obtain that timestamp
> as its tv_sec value will overflow on 32-bit systems in year 2038 beyond.
> The patch uses ktime_get_real_seconds() which returns a 64-bit seconds value.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@...il.com>
> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@...e.de>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> 



I was missing

From: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@...il.com>

If anyone is going to pick this up, let me know whether you will fix
it up yourself or if I should resend.