From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@gmail.com>,
linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
y2038 <y2038@lists.linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH] USB: usbmon: Use 64bit timestamp for mon_bin_hdr
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 08:37:39 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151105163739.GA10136@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11025195.jAqGPh9YPj@wuerfel>
On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 05:18:41PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 29 October 2015 22:44:31 Tina Ruchandani wrote:
> > struct mon_bin_hdr allows for a 64-bit seconds timestamp. The code
> > currently uses 'struct timeval' to populate the timestamp in mon_bin_hdr,
> > which has a 32-bit seconds field and will overflow in year 2038 and beyond.
> > This patch replaces 'struct timeval' with 'struct timespec64' which is
> > y2038 safe. This patch is part of a larger attempt to remove instances
> > of struct timeval and other 32-bit timekeeping (time_t, struct timespec)
> > from the kernel.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@gmail.com>
>
> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>
> As the patch is a week old and Greg hasn't picked it up yet, I'm guessing
> that he doesn't have it in his queue any more and you should send it once
> more with my 'Reviewed-by' tag.
It's the merge window, I can't pick anything new up, please be patient
and wait for 4.4-rc1 to come out first...
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-05 16:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-30 5:44 Tina Ruchandani
2015-11-05 16:18 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-11-05 16:37 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2015-11-05 19:00 ` Arnd Bergmann
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