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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/5] ntp/pps: replace getnstime_raw_and_real with 64-bit version
On Mon, 28 Sep 2015, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> There is exactly one caller of getnstime_raw_and_real in the kernel,
> which is the pps_get_ts function. This changes the caller and
> the implementation to work on timespec64 types rather than timespec,
> to avoid the time_t overflow on 32-bit architectures.
>
> For consistency with the other new functions (ktime_get_seconds,
> ktime_get_real_*, ...), I'm renaming the function to
> ktime_get_raw_and_real_ts64.
>
> We still need to convert from the internal 64-bit type to 32 bit
> types in the caller, but this conversion is now pushed out from
> getnstime_raw_and_real to pps_get_ts. A follow-up patch changes
> the remaining pps code to completely avoid the conversion.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>


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