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SubjectRe: [PATCH 00/19] converting system calls to 64-bit time_t, part 1
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On Wed, 2015-05-06 at 18:30 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> * After all system calls are converted, we can change one architecture
> at a time to select ARCH_HAS_COMPAT_TIME, and modify its system
> call table accordingly. In this version, I do it for ARM32, x86-32,
> and x86-64 for demonstration purposes.

Perhaps this was correct for your first draft. Because this series adds
ARCH_HAS_COMPAT_TIME in 04/19, but it doesn't add any selects of that
symbol, does it? As far as I can see ARCH_HAS_COMPAT_TIME simply
functions as an alias for COMPAT in this series.

> * A follow-up series changes over all other architectures.
>
> * The last patch in the series changes the CONFIG_COMPAT_TIME
> Kconfig symbol to be user visible. Disabling this symbol will
> get you a kernel that intentionally breaks support for old tasks
> in order to provide an interface that will survive 2038.

This doesn't happen in 19/19, or in any other patch in this series.
Maybe also something that has changed since the first draft.

> This is meant mostly as a debugging help for now, to let people
> build a y2038 safe distro, but at some point in the 2030s, we
> should remove that option and all the compat handling.

Thanks,


Paul Bolle



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