From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.3 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 176F5C43331 for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2019 12:38:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1F6621872 for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2019 12:38:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726912AbfKKMig (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Nov 2019 07:38:36 -0500 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:48307 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726853AbfKKMif (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Nov 2019 07:38:35 -0500 Received: from p54ac5540.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([84.172.85.64] helo=wittgenstein) by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iU8xk-0000j9-VE; Mon, 11 Nov 2019 12:38:33 +0000 Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 13:38:32 +0100 From: Christian Brauner To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: y2038@lists.linaro.org, John Stultz , Thomas Gleixner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Boyd , David Howells , Al Viro , Deepa Dinamani , Christian Brauner , linux-api@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/23] y2038: uapi: change __kernel_time_t to __kernel_old_time_t Message-ID: <20191111123830.du25cahvat4ahg54@wittgenstein> References: <20191108210236.1296047-1-arnd@arndb.de> <20191108211323.1806194-1-arnd@arndb.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20191108211323.1806194-1-arnd@arndb.de> User-Agent: NeoMutt/20180716 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 10:12:09PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > This is mainly a patch for clarification, and to let us remove > the time_t definition from the kernel to prevent new users from > creeping in that might not be y2038-safe. > > All remaining uses of 'time_t' or '__kernel_time_t' are part of > the user API that cannot be changed by that either have a > replacement or that do not suffer from the y2038 overflow. > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Acked-by: Christian Brauner