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From: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>,
	Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>,
	y2038 Mailman List <y2038@lists.linaro.org>,
	fstests <fstests@vger.kernel.org>, Eryu Guan <guaneryu@gmail.com>,
	"cip-dev@lists.cip-project.org" <cip-dev@lists.cip-project.org>
Subject: Re: [Y2038] [PATCH] generic/402: fix for updated behavior of timestamp limits
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 15:48:28 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f913d1f409dd4b2a22bcb71a3ddaeb2b87a00671.camel@codethink.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a1HiPLbajjoYQf0N4RBw9eUK6uyC+mOq7LaRmNpgiOgLA@mail.gmail.com>

[+cc cip-dev]

On Thu, 2019-12-19 at 12:29 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
[...]
> - Users of CIP SLTS kernels with extreme service life that may involve
>   not upgrading until after y2038 (this is obviously not recommended if
>   you connect to a public network, but I'm sure some people do this anyway).
>   For running user space, this requires either a 32-bit kernel with the
>   linux-5.1 syscall changes or a 64-bit kernel. If you run a 64-bit linux-4.9
>   kernel in a deeply embedded non-networked machine, it still makes
>   sense to have working inode timestamps and be able to test that.
[...]

CIP is currently aiming for a 10 year support lifetime, so both of its
currently existing branches (4.4, 4.19) should be long out of support
in 2038.  Still, it's possible that some people hope to extend that
later.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings, Software Developer                         Codethink Ltd
https://www.codethink.co.uk/                 Dale House, 35 Dale Street
                                     Manchester, M1 2HF, United Kingdom


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From: ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk (Ben Hutchings)
To: cip-dev@lists.cip-project.org
Subject: [cip-dev] [Y2038] [PATCH] generic/402: fix for updated behavior of timestamp limits
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 15:48:28 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f913d1f409dd4b2a22bcb71a3ddaeb2b87a00671.camel@codethink.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a1HiPLbajjoYQf0N4RBw9eUK6uyC+mOq7LaRmNpgiOgLA@mail.gmail.com>

[+cc cip-dev]

On Thu, 2019-12-19 at 12:29 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
[...]
> - Users of CIP SLTS kernels with extreme service life that may involve
>   not upgrading until after y2038 (this is obviously not recommended if
>   you connect to a public network, but I'm sure some people do this anyway).
>   For running user space, this requires either a 32-bit kernel with the
>   linux-5.1 syscall changes or a 64-bit kernel. If you run a 64-bit linux-4.9
>   kernel in a deeply embedded non-networked machine, it still makes
>   sense to have working inode timestamps and be able to test that.
[...]

CIP is currently aiming for a 10 year support lifetime, so both of its
currently existing branches (4.4, 4.19) should be long out of support
in 2038.  Still, it's possible that some people hope to extend that
later.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings, Software Developer                         Codethink Ltd
https://www.codethink.co.uk/                 Dale House, 35 Dale Street
                                     Manchester, M1 2HF, United Kingdom

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-12-19 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-19  4:12 [PATCH] generic/402: fix for updated behavior of timestamp limits Deepa Dinamani
2019-07-21 16:47 ` Eryu Guan
2019-10-02 22:06   ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-10-05 18:35 ` Eryu Guan
2019-10-23 22:17   ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-12-12 13:11 ` Amir Goldstein
2019-12-12 21:55   ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-12-18 20:21     ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-12-18 20:46       ` Amir Goldstein
2019-12-19  8:28         ` [Y2038] " Arnd Bergmann
2019-12-19  8:40           ` Greg KH
2019-12-19 11:29             ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-12-19 11:35               ` Greg KH
2019-12-19 15:48               ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2019-12-19 15:48                 ` [cip-dev] " Ben Hutchings
2019-12-19 20:35                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-12-19 20:35                   ` [cip-dev] " Arnd Bergmann
2019-12-19 12:09           ` Amir Goldstein
2019-12-20 22:45             ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-12-23  5:16               ` [PATCH] generic/402: Make timestamp range check conditional Deepa Dinamani
2019-12-23  6:36                 ` Amir Goldstein
2019-12-24  1:15                   ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-12-28 22:13                     ` [PATCH v2] " Deepa Dinamani
2019-12-30  7:34                       ` Amir Goldstein
2020-01-03  6:46                         ` Deepa Dinamani
2020-01-03  9:58                           ` Amir Goldstein
2020-01-08  8:09                         ` Eryu Guan
2020-01-08  8:45                           ` Amir Goldstein
2020-01-08  9:50                             ` Eryu Guan
2020-01-17  9:09                               ` Amir Goldstein
2020-01-17 18:23                                 ` Deepa Dinamani
2020-01-17 19:01                                   ` Deepa Dinamani
2020-01-19  0:57                                     ` [PATCH v3 1/1] " Deepa Dinamani
2020-01-19  9:19                                       ` Amir Goldstein
2020-02-01  9:14                                         ` Eryu Guan

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