linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [RESEND] megaraid: use ktime_get

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Date:   Thu, 18 Jan 2018 21:31:25 -0500
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@...adcom.com>,
        Sumit Saxena <sumit.saxena@...adcom.com>,
        Shivasharan S <shivasharan.srikanteshwara@...adcom.com>,
        "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        Tomas Henzl <thenzl@...hat.com>,
        Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.com>,
        megaraidlinux.pdl@...adcom.com, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RESEND] megaraid: use ktime_get_real for firmware time


Arnd,

> do_gettimeofday() overflows in 2038 on 32-bit architectures and
> is deprecated, so convert this driver to call ktime_get_real()
> directly. This also simplifies the calculation.

Applied to 4.16/scsi-queue. Thanks!

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering