linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] aacraid: stop using deprated get

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Message-ID: <yq11sct5yme.fsf@oracle.com>
Date:   Tue, 26 Jun 2018 11:57:45 -0400
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Adaptec OEM Raid Solutions <aacraid@...rosemi.com>,
        "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        y2038@...ts.linaro.org,
        "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Raghava Aditya Renukunta 
        <RaghavaAditya.Renukunta@...rosemi.com>,
        Dave Carroll <david.carroll@...rosemi.com>,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] aacraid: stop using deprated get_seconds()


Arnd,

> get_seconds() can overflow on 32-bit architectures and is deprecated
> because of that. The use in the aacraid driver has the same problem
> due to a limited firmware interface, it also overflows in the year
> 2106.
>
> This changes all calls to get_seconds() to the non-deprecated
> ktime_get_real_seconds(), which unfortunately doesn't solve that
> problem but gets rid of one user of the deprecated interface.

Applied to 4.19/scsi-queue. Thanks!

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering