Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/4] input: serio: Replace timeval by timespec64 | Date | Tue, 13 Sep 2016 17:13:48 +0200 |
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On Tuesday, September 13, 2016 7:10:05 AM CEST Deepa Dinamani wrote: > struct timeval is not y2038 safe. > All references to timeval will be deleted from the > kernel to make it y2038 safe. > Replace its uses by y2038 safe struct timespec64. > > The timestamps changed here only keep track of delta > times. These timestamps are also internal to kernel. > Hence, monotonic times are sufficient here. > The unit of the delta times is also changed in certain > cases to nanoseconds rather than microseconds. This is > in line with timespec64 which keeps time in nanoseconds. > > Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com> >
Looks all correct to me,
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
I think it could be done a little nicer using ktime_get() instead of ktime_get_ts64(), but probably nobody cares with this driver.
Arnd
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