netdev - Re: [PATCH] openvswitch: use ktime_get_ts64() instead of ktime_get

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Message-Id: <20171130.092715.884103462972408503.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Thu, 30 Nov 2017 09:27:15 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     arnd@...db.de
Cc:     pshelar@...ira.com, y2038@...ts.linaro.org, pshelar@....org,
        xiangxia.m.yue@...il.com, jbenc@...hat.com, willemb@...gle.com,
        jarno@....org, yihung.wei@...il.com, yi.y.yang@...el.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, dev@...nvswitch.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] openvswitch: use ktime_get_ts64() instead of
 ktime_get_ts()

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 12:41:38 +0100

> timespec is deprecated because of the y2038 overflow, so let's convert
> this one to ktime_get_ts64(). The code is already safe even on 32-bit
> architectures, since it uses monotonic times. On 64-bit architectures,
> nothing changes, while on 32-bit architectures this avoids one
> type conversion.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

Applied.