linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 02/10] include: Move compat_timespec/ timeval to compat

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Message-ID: <20180116093029.gzse6xs4sjx43znp@armageddon.cambridge.arm.com>
Date:   Tue, 16 Jan 2018 09:30:29 +0000
From:   Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:     Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 02/10] include: Move compat_timespec/ timeval to
 compat_time.h

On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 06:18:10PM -0800, Deepa Dinamani wrote:
> All the current architecture specific defines for these
> are the same. Refactor these common defines to a common
> header file.
> 
> The new common linux/compat_time.h is also useful as it
> will eventually be used to hold all the defines that
> are needed for compat time types that support non y2038
> safe types. New architectures need not have to define these
> new types as they will only use new y2038 safe syscalls.
> This file can be deleted after y2038 when we stop supporting
> non y2038 safe syscalls.

For arm64:

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>