Messages in this thread | | | From | David Brownell <> | Subject | Re: [patch 2.6.19-rc6 6/6] rtc-omap driver | Date | Wed, 22 Nov 2006 16:09:49 -0800 |
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On Tuesday 21 November 2006 6:28 pm, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Starting in 2037 or whenever, various things will be breaking... > > > > Probably the RTC lib routines should use a time_t, and when that gets > > changed to 64 bits then things like this will be fixed automagically. > > Right now they use "unsigned long". > > > > I suggest Alessandro handle those issues. > > We could simply (ab)use timer_after() here.
We could indeed. But things will still break badly in 2037, and the timer_after() thing is clearly an incomplete fix.
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