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From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
To: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: usbmon: Use 64bit timestamp for mon_bin_hdr
Date: Tue, 05 May 2015 08:25:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1430807140.12261.7.camel@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150505062056.GA4746@tinar>

On Tue, 2015-05-05 at 11:50 +0530, Tina Ruchandani wrote:
> struct mon_bin_hdr allows for a 64-bit seconds timestamp. The code 
> currently uses 'struct timeval' to populate the timestamp in mon_bin_hdr, 
> which has a 32-bit seconds field and will overflow in year 2038 and beyond.
> This patch replaces 'struct timeval' with 'struct timespec64' which is 
> y2038 safe.

Hi,

but the timestamp will also overflow. So what is the point?

	Regards
		Oliver



  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-05  6:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-05  6:20 [PATCH] USB: usbmon: Use 64bit timestamp for mon_bin_hdr Tina Ruchandani
2015-05-05  6:25 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2015-05-05  6:37 Tina Ruchandani
2015-05-05 14:52 ` Alan Stern

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