From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752953AbcBZCRp (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Feb 2016 21:17:45 -0500 Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:47352 "EHLO aserp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750893AbcBZCRo (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Feb 2016 21:17:44 -0500 To: Alison Schofield Cc: achim_leubner@pmc-sierra.com, martin.petersen@oracle.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, y2038@lists.linaro.org Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v2] scsi: gdth: replace struct timeval with ktime_get_real_seconds() From: "Martin K. Petersen" Organization: Oracle Corporation References: <20151119214304.GA16713@d830.WORKGROUP> <1455773374-2863-1-git-send-email-amsfield22@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 21:17:35 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1455773374-2863-1-git-send-email-amsfield22@gmail.com> (Alison Schofield's message of "Wed, 17 Feb 2016 21:29:34 -0800") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Source-IP: aserv0021.oracle.com [141.146.126.233] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "Alison" == Alison Schofield writes: Alison> struct timeval will overflow on 32-bit systems in y2038 and is Alison> being removed from the kernel. Replace the use of struct timeval Alison> and do_gettimeofday() with ktime_get_real_seconds() which Alison> provides a 64-bit seconds value and is y2038 safe. Applied to 4.6/scsi-queue. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering