From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: "pang.xunlei" <pang.xunlei@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rtc-linux@googlegroups.com,
xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>,
Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 07/11] time: Convert alarm_set_rtc() to use timespec64
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 15:52:07 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1410301550010.5308@nanos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1414667745-7703-8-git-send-email-pang.xunlei@linaro.org>
On Thu, 30 Oct 2014, pang.xunlei wrote:
> +/*
> +* TODO: [2038 safety] alarm_do_ioctl() should be fixed to use timespec64,
> +* once timespec64 is promoted to userspace.
Nonsense. You CANNOT 'FIX' this. The ioctl needs to stay as is because
you need to preserve the user space ABI.
It needs a new ioctl variant which handles timespec64.
Thanks,
tglx
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-30 14:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-30 11:15 [RFC PATCH v2 00/11] Convert do_settimeofday() " pang.xunlei
2014-10-30 11:15 ` [RFC PATCH v2 01/11] time: Add do_settimeofday64() safe version(using timespec64) pang.xunlei
2014-10-30 13:24 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-10-30 11:15 ` [RFC PATCH v2 02/11] time: Add mktime64() safe version(using time64_t) pang.xunlei
2014-10-30 13:43 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-10-30 11:15 ` [RFC PATCH v2 03/11] time: Add rtc_tm_to_time64() " pang.xunlei
2014-10-30 13:55 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-10-30 16:30 ` pang.xunlei
2014-10-30 20:49 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-10-30 11:15 ` [RFC PATCH v2 04/11] time: Add rtc_time_to_tm64() " pang.xunlei
2014-10-30 14:07 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-10-30 11:15 ` [RFC PATCH v2 05/11] time: Convert all users of do_settimeofday() to use do_settimeofday64() pang.xunlei
2014-10-30 14:49 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-10-30 15:27 ` John Stultz
2014-10-30 16:06 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-10-30 11:15 ` [RFC PATCH v2 06/11] time: Remove do_settimeofday() pang.xunlei
2014-10-30 11:15 ` [RFC PATCH v2 07/11] time: Convert alarm_set_rtc() to use timespec64 pang.xunlei
2014-10-30 14:52 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2014-10-30 11:15 ` [RFC PATCH v2 08/11] time: Convert xen_read_wallclock() " pang.xunlei
[not found] ` <54522159.8070204@citrix.com>
2014-10-30 14:58 ` [Xen-devel] " Thomas Gleixner
2014-10-30 11:15 ` [RFC PATCH v2 09/11] time: Convert pvclock_read_wallclock() " pang.xunlei
2014-10-30 14:57 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-10-30 11:15 ` [RFC PATCH v2 10/11] time: Convert x86_platform.set_wallclock()to " pang.xunlei
2014-10-30 11:15 ` [RFC PATCH v2 11/11] time: Convert x86_platform.get_wallclock()to " pang.xunlei
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