Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: wlcore: use boottime for fw time sync | From | Kalle Valo <> | Date | Thu, 7 Dec 2017 13:20:46 +0000 (UTC) |
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Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> Using getnstimeofday()/timespec_to_ns() causes an overflow on 32-bit > architectures in 2038, and may suffer from time jumps due to > settimeofday() or leap seconds. > > I don't see a reason why this needs to be UTC, so either monotonic > or boot time would be better here. Assuming that the fw time keeps > running during suspend, boottime is better than monotonic, and > ktime_get_boot_ns() will also save the additional conversion to > nanoseconds. > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.
99f6996d4cba wlcore: use boottime for fw time sync
-- https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10076691/
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
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