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SubjectRe: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH v2] firewire: Replace timeval with timespec64
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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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