linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] timer: avoid using timespec

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Message-ID: <CALAqxLWr8VS6C+25832zjn9CA0Gf9b0ib=W+g7QaxJV-n1uNwg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 17 Jun 2016 13:50:46 -0700
From:	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	y2038 Mailman List <y2038@...ts.linaro.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] timer: avoid using timespec

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 8:30 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
> The tstats_show() function prints a ktime_t variable by converting
> it to struct timespec first. The algorithm is ok, but we want to
> stop using timespec in general because of the 32-bit time_t
> overflow problem.
>
> This changes the code to use struct timespec64, without any
> functional change.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

Queued for testing.

thanks
-john