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Date:   Mon, 20 Nov 2017 22:04:48 -0500
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Anil Gurumurthy <anil.gurumurthy@...gic.com>,
        Sudarsana Kalluru <sudarsana.kalluru@...gic.com>,
        "James E . J . Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        "Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        y2038@...ts.linaro.org, hch@....de, hare@...e.com,
        jthumshirn@...e.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] scsi: bfa: do_gettimeofday removal


Arnd,

> The bfa driver is one of the main users of do_gettimeofday(), a
> function that I'm trying to remove as part of the y2038 cleanup.
>
> The timestamps are all uses in slightly different ways, so this has
> turned into a rather longish series for doing something that should be
> simple.
>
> The last patch in the series ("scsi: bfa: use 64-bit times in
> bfa_aen_entry_s ABI") is one that needs to be reviewed very carefully,
> and it can be skipped if the maintainers prefer to leave the 32-bit
> ABI unchanged, the rest are hopefully fairly straightforward.

Applied to 4.16/scsi-queue, thanks!

Will drop #7 if something breaks.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering