From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: y2038@lists.linaro.org
Cc: DengChao <chao.deng@linaro.org>,
sonic.zhang@analog.com, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Y2038] [PATCH V1] serial:bfin-uart:Remove 'struct timeval'
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 14:49:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4649363.jeEbMAWnTU@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1447335947-14877-1-git-send-email-chao.deng@linaro.org>
On Thursday 12 November 2015 21:45:47 DengChao wrote:
> The bfin-uart code uses real time with struct timeval. This will
> cause problems on 32-bit architectures in 2038 when time_t
> overflows.
> Since the code just needs delta value of time, it is not
> necessary to record them in real time.
> This patch changes the code to use the monotonic time instead,
> replaces struct timeval and do_gettimeofday() with u64 and
> ktime_get_ns().
>
> Signed-off-by: DengChao <chao.deng@linaro.org>
>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-12 13:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-12 13:45 [PATCH V1] serial:bfin-uart:Remove 'struct timeval' DengChao
2015-11-12 13:45 ` DengChao
2015-11-12 13:49 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
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