linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/27] [AARCH64] Fix utmp struct for compatibility reasons.

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Date:	Thu, 23 Jun 2016 00:37:54 -0700
From:	Andrew Pinski <pinskia@...il.com>
To:	Yury Norov <ynorov@...iumnetworks.com>
Cc:	Andreas Schwab <schwab@...e.de>,
	Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@....com>,
	GNU C Library <libc-alpha@...rceware.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, nd <nd@....com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Marcus Shawcroft <marcus.shawcroft@....com>, philb@....org,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Maxim Kuvyrkov <maxim.kuvyrkov@...aro.org>,
	"Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@...esourcery.com>,
	Andrew Pinski <apinski@...ium.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/27] [AARCH64] Fix utmp struct for compatibility reasons.

On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 12:36 AM, Yury Norov <ynorov@...iumnetworks.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 09:32:46AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Andrew Pinski <pinskia@...il.com> writes:
>>
>> > So if you want aarch64 to be compatible with aarch32, you need to
>> > define __WORDSIZE_TIME64_COMPAT32.  If we don't want aarch64 and
>> > aarch32 to be compatible at all, then we can drop this patch or if you
>> > don't want LP64 and ILP32 to be compatible either.
>>
>> Or go the other way like s390 and use the LP64 layout for ILP32.
>>
>> Andreas.
>>
>> --
>> Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, schwab@...e.de
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>> "And now for something completely different."
>
> It was an agreement that we don't fix Y2038 issues specifically, as
> there will be general fix.

Except that was the agreement for ILP32 what about AARCH32 and AARCH64
LP64 where is a known issue right now.

ARM and AARCH64 maintainers please chime in about this issue.

Thanks,
Andrew