Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Aug 2015 10:51:26 +0300 | From | Tomi Valkeinen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fbdev: radeon: Remove 'struct timeval' usage |
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Hi Tina,
On 25/05/15 07:07, Tina Ruchandani wrote: > 'struct timeval' uses a 32-bit representation for the > seconds field which will overflow in the year 2038 and beyond. > This patch replaces the usage of 'struct timeval' with > ktime_t which uses a 64-bit time representation and does not > suffer from the y2038 problem. This patch is part of a larger > effort to remove all instances of 'struct timeval', 'struct > timespec', time_t and other 32-bit timekeeping variables > from the kernel. > The patch also replaces the use of real time (do_gettimeofday) > with monotonic time (ktime_get). > > Signed-off-by: Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@gmail.com>
I had dropped this from 4.2 as there were issues reported, but forgot to write a mail about it...
Can you send a updated patch with the issues fixed?
Tomi
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