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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 02/12] net: stmmac: avoid using timespec
    On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 01:26:32PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
    > We want to deprecate the use of 'struct timespec' on 32-bit
    > architectures, as it is will overflow in 2038. The stmmac
    > driver uses it to read the current time, and can simply
    > be changed to use ktime_get_real_ts64() instead.
    >
    > Because of hardware limitations, there is still an overflow
    > in year 2106, which we cannot really avoid, but this documents
    > the overflow.
    >
    > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

    Acked-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>


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