Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [media] rc-core: Remove 'struct timeval' usage | Date | Thu, 05 Nov 2015 17:11:23 +0100 |
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On Thursday 29 October 2015 00:16:57 Tina Ruchandani wrote: > streamzap uses 'struct timeval' to store the start time of a signal for > gap tracking. struct timeval uses a 32-bit seconds representation which > will overflow in year 2038 and beyond. Replace struct timeval with ktime_t > which uses a 64-bit seconds representation and is 2038 safe. This patch > uses ktime_get_real() preserving the use of wall-clock time in the > original code. > > Signed-off-by: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
I've applied it to my y2038 tree for the moment, so I won't forget about it, but it would be nice if Mauro could pick it up as well and let me drop it from my tree.
Arnd
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