From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758655AbcATXRd (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jan 2016 18:17:33 -0500 Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.131]:61137 "EHLO mout.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758542AbcATXR3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jan 2016 18:17:29 -0500 From: Arnd Bergmann To: y2038@lists.linaro.org Cc: Dave Chinner , Andreas Dilger , "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" , Deepa Dinamani , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [Y2038] [RFC 02/15] vfs: Change all structures to support 64 bit time Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 00:17:21 +0100 Message-ID: <3279723.2VNFImc7nR@wuerfel> User-Agent: KMail/4.11.5 (Linux/3.16.0-10-generic; KDE/4.11.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20160120230632.GZ6033@dastard> References: <1452144972-15802-1-git-send-email-deepa.kernel@gmail.com> <14988333.dbUrT9DQnz@wuerfel> <20160120230632.GZ6033@dastard> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:hwinXt8muPE/EYLc/+shpPxjULB5RRXwndZ/FBbKuFYpBUY39i7 3wNCNafkrGB9LjOb4bECdRPRt/0z72RDHBQqlmpSXVS4Pb6E1kkBAeiiSHXNmgrj1hxQkY+ iEvylTwoZEA5vRXNZfP+BbwfQWaAYQKIsaKBiOCsS6VfN9wgbSyCtXR/EDiPDBXTs7+F7jH 4gujb3E7TVDcbq3eYIOgw== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:S4hFwN7deDM=:Htp4kRKK4b9momveVmyFZ8 mWrsVZagp33JxoRQeNQPsurHB3228Bjn4vfAXAGE6NC80K1yIb9O21qPBv0ZxUDqv/61VuSqZ qBkoySB8T6HG8elycYX36C21cpDghFM7p4Foak3HLvKCNnAMzG8/9Y0fsaCPLbYIphvfYDEPo a4Uiw0/njIrqt3CdIu/TBRimgWXSQj3+tGKebV32sgRR+JjWlZogdHgbhjv0/HW2hUCh6ffsj Q6/PILNGjFQmEW7Jj62BbYlByycSn9KnwXN9iVYnRqc0hsEYtIYDX/n9/3xLzYUY3sv0eLv4Y hVv70/CsJvJ/crSRDWj4wCrQtWRf5uXrYEd4LzqOsCrjv44HUG2m4sUM3vqA0lr20VaAg0avm 1otUfSpHF8fPrqUhE3OwIZURQiM3Bk6QEpamIK/Yu99Y/AYu2bY3LNbjyNbIF4vEfOsz4lbe+ vIpV1yV+J/Ho0dnVEfG7KZwmpvQZUzxASHW0mH4WD1YsmVtEjx+n29kLvgFRyJuVYSZhoGIQt /OmbDUJ39SgX+hetd5DrTHasN+L2p9vIpsAQfNieIIZLHi2ksZbaDtw8iQYVH5KdKLo2DSMIA Ltx47IaRPQGsK2KqRqTn+vydut2oqZe3WOaXNtSTMy6ojMWAiaawCP5W2n1Fy3ROfGXCw6zBN BbsSlBftfJmUZxcyGySeI1Ko7QfuUfWNiuyDNA+d01uaeDQvCuj8AN4xGGA8GhtKD9rdxGgjt 6AktSdDqNIv6pUpb Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 21 January 2016 10:06:32 Dave Chinner wrote: > > IOWs, you're now finally suggesting doing the *simple conversion* > I've been suggesting needs to be made *since the start* of this > long, frustrating thread, except you *still want to abstract the > timestamp unnecessarily*. > > For the last time: use timespec64 directly, do not abstract it > in any way. No, in an earlier mail you said "Nobody is suggesting one huge patch here. This can all be done with small steps." Changing 45 files in 20 file systems along with the VFS core in one patch is what I consider a huge patch, it's the opposite of small steps. Arnd