Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] USB: usbmon: Remove timeval usage for timestamp | Date | Thu, 05 Nov 2015 17:19:55 +0100 |
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On Thursday 29 October 2015 22:58:28 Tina Ruchandani wrote: > struct timeval' uses 32-bits for its seconds field and will overflow in > the year 2038 and beyond. This patch replaces the usage of 'struct timeval' > in mon_get_timestamp() with timespec64 which uses a 64-bit seconds field > and is y2038-safe. mon_get_timestamp() truncates the timestamp at 4096 seconds, > so the correctness of the code is not affected. This patch is part of a larger > attempt to remove instances of struct timeval and other 32-bit timekeeping > (time_t, struct timespec) from the kernel. > > Signed-off-by: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@gmail.com> > Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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