Re: [PATCH 02/12] net: stmmac: avoid using timespec

From	Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 02/12] net: stmmac: avoid using timespec
Date	2015-10-01 21:10 +0200
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On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 01:26:32PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> We want to deprecate the use of 'struct timespec' on 32-bit
> architectures, as it is will overflow in 2038. The stmmac
> driver uses it to read the current time, and can simply
> be changed to use ktime_get_real_ts64() instead.
> 
> Because of hardware limitations, there is still an overflow
> in year 2106, which we cannot really avoid, but this documents
> the overflow.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

Acked-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
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[PATCH 00/12] net: assorted y2038 changes Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-09-30 13:40 +0200
  [PATCH 03/12] net: igb: avoid using timespec Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-09-30 13:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 03/12] net: igb: avoid using timespec Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> - 2015-10-01 21:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 03/12] net: igb: avoid using timespec Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-10-01 22:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 03/12] net: igb: avoid using timespec Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> - 2015-10-02 09:50 +0200
  [PATCH 02/12] net: stmmac: avoid using timespec Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-09-30 13:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 02/12] net: stmmac: avoid using timespec Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> - 2015-10-01 21:10 +0200
  [PATCH 04/12] mwifiex: use ktime_get_real for timestamping Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-09-30 13:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 00/12] net: assorted y2038 changes David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2015-10-05 12:10 +0200

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