linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] fbdev: pxa3xx: use ktime_get

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Message-id: <3904349.nl3lDnz3Dp@amdc3058>
Date:   Thu, 04 Jan 2018 14:31:58 +0100
From:   Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>,
        Himanshu Jha <himanshujha199640@...il.com>,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fbdev: pxa3xx: use ktime_get_ts64 for time stamps

On Monday, November 27, 2017 05:46:14 PM Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> do_gettimeofday() is deprecated because it is not y2038 safe, so I'm
> changing the calculation for the diagnostic output over to using
> 'timespec64'.
> 
> We really only print time deltas here, so changing it to monotonic
> time makes this more robust, the correct accessor for this is
> ktime_get_ts64().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

Patch queued for 4.16, thanks.

Best regards,
--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics