linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] y2038: sparc: remove use of struct timex

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Date:   Sat, 28 Dec 2019 12:39:14 +1100
From:   Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@...il.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@...il.com>,
        sparclinux <sparclinux@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] y2038: sparc: remove use of struct timex

Hi Arnd,

On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 1:49 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
>
> 'struct timex' is one of the last users of 'struct timeval' and is
> only referenced in one place in the kernel any more, to convert the
> user space timex into the kernel-internal version on sparc64, with a
> different tv_usec member type.
>
> As a preparation for hiding the time_t definition and everything
> using that in the kernel, change the implementation once more
> to only convert the timeval member, and then enclose the
> struct definition in an #ifdef.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

FWIW this is:

Reviewed-by: Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@...il.com>

Thanks,

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Julian Calaby

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