linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] md: use seconds granularity for error logging

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Date:	Tue, 19 Jul 2016 10:59:51 -0700
From:	Shaohua Li <shli@...nel.org>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	y2038@...ts.linaro.org, NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>,
	Guoqing Jiang <gqjiang@...e.com>,
	Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@...e.com>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.com>,
	linux-raid@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] md: use seconds granularity for error logging

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 05:33:10PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The md code stores the exact time of the last error in the
> last_read_error variable using a timespec structure. It only
> ever uses the seconds portion of that though, so we can
> use a scalar for it.
> 
> There won't be an overflow in 2038 here, because it already
> used monotonic time and 32-bit is enough for that, but I've
> decided to use time64_t for consistency in the conversion.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

Applied, thanks!