Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/19] converting system calls to 64-bit time_t, part 1 | From | Paul Bolle <> | Date | Thu, 07 May 2015 11:24:53 +0200 |
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On Thu, 2015-05-07 at 10:52 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Thursday 07 May 2015 09:39:18 Paul Bolle wrote: > I realize the downsides of not posting the entire series at once > here, but it seemed better to avoid spamming everyone too much, > while I try to find out if we have agreement on the overall > strategy.
That downside is worse when people only quickly skim your message for clues while thinking about the problem they _think_ they've spotted (like I did).
> For reference, see below for the ARM patch.
> > And then it occurred to me to check the y2038-syscalls git branch you > > referenced. After which the above made much more sense. (Though my > > remark that ARCH_HAS_COMPAT_TIME simply functions as an alias for COMPAT > > also seems to hold for that branch.) > > Right, in fact both of these happen at the end of the git tree.
Still, you might consider making ARCH_HAS_COMPAT_TIME a plain bool and adding "select ARCH_HAS_COMPAT_TIME" to the eight or so COMPAT entries. But, clearly, I'm now wasting even more of your time by trying to save face here.
Thanks,
Paul Bolle
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