Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Oct 2017 15:40:32 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kdb: use __ktime_get_real_seconds instead of __current_kernel_time |
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On Thu, 12 Oct 2017 16:06:11 +0200 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> kdb is the only user of the __current_kernel_time() interface, which is > not y2038 safe and should be removed at some point. > > The kdb code also goes to great lengths to print the time in a > human-readable format from 'struct timespec', again using a non-y2038-safe > re-implementation of the generic time_to_tm() code.
Is it really necessary for the kdb `summary' command to print the time/date? Which puppies would die if we just removed it all?
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