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From: Sathya Prakash Veerichetty <sathya.prakash@broadcom.com>
To: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@gmail.com>
Cc: PDL-MPT-FUSIONLINUX <mpt-fusionlinux.pdl@broadcom.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	y2038@lists.linaro.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	suganath-prabu.subramani@avagotech.com,
	Chaitra Basappa <chaitra.basappa@broadcom.com>,
	Sreekanth Reddy <sreekanth.reddy@avagotech.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] mpt3sas: Remove usage of 'struct timeval'
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 11:43:10 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <624c2d8b5746488ce5587db59b613c51@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yq1inzjsi2v.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net>

Hi,
Please consider this patch as Ack-by: Sathya Prakash
<sathya.prakash@broadcom.com>

Thanks,
Sathya

-----Original Message-----
From: mpt-fusionlinux.pdl@broadcom.com
[mailto:mpt-fusionlinux.pdl@broadcom.com] On Behalf Of Martin K. Petersen
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2016 8:48 PM
To: Tina Ruchandani
Cc: MPT-FusionLinux.pdl@broadcom.com; Arnd Bergmann;
y2038@lists.linaro.org; linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org;
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com;
suganath-prabu.subramani@avagotech.com; Chaitra P B; Sreekanth Reddy
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mpt3sas: Remove usage of 'struct timeval'

>>>>> "Tina" == Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@gmail.com> writes:

Tina> 'struct timeval' will have its tv_sec value overflow on 32-bit
Tina> systems in year 2038 and beyond. This patch replaces the use of
Tina> struct timeval for computing mpi_request.TimeStamp, and instead
Tina> uses ktime_t which provides 64-bit seconds value. The timestamp
Tina> computed remains unaffected (milliseconds since Unix epoch).

Broadcom folks, please review.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-15 17:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-13  7:01 [PATCH] mpt3sas: Remove usage of 'struct timeval' Tina Ruchandani
2016-04-15  2:48 ` Martin K. Petersen
2016-04-15  2:48   ` Martin K. Petersen
2016-04-15 17:43   ` Sathya Prakash Veerichetty [this message]
2016-04-15  7:16 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2016-04-15  7:16   ` Johannes Thumshirn
2016-04-15 20:20 ` Martin K. Petersen
2016-04-15 20:20   ` Martin K. Petersen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-02-04  4:45 Tina Ruchandani
2015-02-04 14:50 ` Arnd Bergmann

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