From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: y2038@lists.linaro.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@lst.de,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] y2038: provide aliases for compat helpers
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 15:09:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180822130958.GB28149@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180821203329.2089473-1-arnd@arndb.de>
On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 10:33:00PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> As part of the system call rework for 64-bit time_t, we are restructuring
> the way that compat syscalls deal with 32-bit time_t, reusing the
> implementation for 32-bit architectures. Christoph Hellwig suggested
> a rename of the associated types and interfaces to avoid the confusing
> usage of the 'compat' prefix for 32-bit architectures.
>
> To prepare for doing that in linux-4.20, this adds a set of macros
> that lets us convert subsystems separately to the new names and
> avoid some of the nastier merge conflicts.
Looks fine to me:
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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