From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: ruchandani.tina@gmail.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, arnd@arndb.de,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, isdn@linux-pingi.de,
y2038@lists.linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7] isdn: Use ktime_t instead of 'struct timeval'
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2016 16:47:28 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160320.164728.395636107297003956.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160319182113.GA2256@tina-laptop>
From: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2016 11:21:14 -0700
> 'struct timeval' uses 32-bit representation for seconds which will
> overflow in year 2038 and beyond. mISDN/clock.c needs to compute and
> store elapsed time in intervals of 125 microseconds. This patch replaces
> the usage of 'struct timeval' with 64-bit ktime_t which is y2038 safe.
> The patch also replaces do_gettimeofday() (wall-clock time) with
> ktime_get() (monotonic time) since we only care about elapsed time here.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@gmail.com>
> Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmnann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Suggested-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Applied, thank you.
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