Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Feb 2016 09:55:34 -0500 (EST) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] net: hamradio: baycom_ser_fdx: Replace timeval with timespec64 | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Amitoj Kaur Chawla <amitoj1606@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 10:08:54 +0530
> 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 only using microseconds portion of the time. > > This patch replaces 'struct timeval' with 'struct timespec64'. We only > need to find elapsed microseconds rather than absolute time, so it's > better to use monotonic time, so using ktime_get_ts64() makes the code > more efficient and more robust against concurrent settimeofday() > calls. > > Signed-off-by: Amitoj Kaur Chawla <amitoj1606@gmail.com> > Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Applied.
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