linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] socket: move compat timeout handling into sock.c

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Date:   Tue, 8 Jan 2019 13:29:09 -0800
From:   Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@...il.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
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        Richard Henderson <rth@...ddle.net>,
        cluster-devel <cluster-devel@...hat.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] socket: move compat timeout handling into sock.c

On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 12:10 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
>
> This is a cleanup to prepare for the addition of 64-bit time_t
> in O_SNDTIMEO/O_RCVTIMEO. The existing compat handler seems
> unnecessarily complex and error-prone, moving it all into the
> main setsockopt()/getsockopt() implementation requires half
> as much code and is easier to extend.
>
> 32-bit user space can now use old_timeval32 on both 32-bit
> and 64-bit machines, while 64-bit code can use
> __old_kernel_timeval.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

This will make the other series so much nicer. Thank you.

Acked-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@...il.com>