linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scsi: debug: remove jiffies_to

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Date:   Wed, 29 Nov 2017 00:01:40 -0500
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        y2038@...ts.linaro.org, Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@....com>,
        Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@...erlog.com>,
        Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>,
        Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@...e.de>,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: debug: remove jiffies_to_timespec


Arnd,

> There is no need to go through an intermediate timespec to convert to
> ktime_t when we just want a simple multiplication. This gets rid of
> one of the few users of jiffies_to_timespec, which I hope to remove as
> part of the y2038 cleanup.

Applied to 4.16/scsi-queue. Thanks!

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering