linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] s390/dasd: remove 'struct timespec' usage

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Message-Id: <75f426fe-cd8a-61ae-435d-c15c4b34922d@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:   Fri, 1 Dec 2017 13:23:16 +0100
From:   Stefan Haberland <sth@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Jan Hoeppner <hoeppner@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
        Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
        y2038@...ts.linaro.org, Sebastian Ott <sebott@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] s390/dasd: remove 'struct timespec' usage

On 27.11.2017 12:46, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> getnstimeofday() and timespec are deprecated since they can
> overflow on 32-bit architectures. This simply changes to the
> explicitly typed timespec64 version that doesn't have that
> problem.
>
> It would be nice to also convert to monotonic timestamps
> and call ktime_get_ts64() rather than ktime_get_real_ts64(),
> but that would be a user-visible change.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

Thanks for the patch. I just reviewed, tested and applied it.

Regards,
Stefan