Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH v2] firewire: Replace timeval with timespec64 | Date | Thu, 05 Nov 2015 15:43:20 +0100 |
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On Thursday 05 November 2015 14:34:48 Stefan Richter wrote: > On Oct 22 Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > On Thursday 22 October 2015 04:05:00 Amitoj Kaur Chawla wrote: > > > 32 bit systems using 'struct timeval' will break in the year 2038, so > > > we replace the code appropriately. However, this driver is not broken > > > in 2038 since we are using only the microseconds portion of the > > > current time. > > > > > > This patch replaces timeval with timespec64. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Amitoj Kaur Chawla <amitoj1606@gmail.com> > > > > Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> > > > > (adding the y2038 mailing list as well) > > Committed to linux1394.git. > Arnd, do you have special y2038 plans that make it desirable to have this > merged before v4.4? Otherwise I would submit it for v4.5-rc1.
4.5-rc1 is fine.
Arnd
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