From: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
To: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@gmail.com>
Cc: 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
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mpt3sas: Remove usage of 'struct timeval'
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 09:16:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1561298.UGYTUHuOD6@c203> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160413070140.GA35235@localhost>
On Mittwoch, 13. April 2016 00:01:40 CEST Tina Ruchandani wrote:
> 'struct timeval' will have its tv_sec value overflow on 32-bit systems
> in year 2038 and beyond. This patch replaces the use of struct timeval
> for computing mpi_request.TimeStamp, and instead uses ktime_t which provides
> 64-bit seconds value. The timestamp computed remains unaffected (milliseconds
> since Unix epoch).
>
> Signed-off-by: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@gmail.com>
> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> ---
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-15 7:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ 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 17:43 ` Sathya Prakash Veerichetty
2016-04-15 7:16 ` Johannes Thumshirn [this message]
2016-04-15 20:20 ` Martin K. Petersen
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