Re: [RESEND PATCH] USB: usbmon: Use 64bit timestamp for mon_bin_hdr

From	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [RESEND PATCH] USB: usbmon: Use 64bit timestamp for mon_bin_hdr
Date	2015-11-05 20:10 +0100
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On Thursday 05 November 2015 08:37:39 Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 05:18:41PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Thursday 29 October 2015 22:44:31 Tina Ruchandani wrote:
> > > struct mon_bin_hdr allows for a 64-bit seconds timestamp. The code
> > > currently uses 'struct timeval' to populate the timestamp in mon_bin_hdr,
> > > which has a 32-bit seconds field and will overflow in year 2038 and beyond.
> > > This patch replaces 'struct timeval' with 'struct timespec64' which is
> > > y2038 safe. 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>
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> > 
> > As the patch is a week old and Greg hasn't picked it up yet, I'm guessing
> > that he doesn't have it in his queue any more and you should send it once
> > more with my 'Reviewed-by' tag.
> 
> It's the merge window, I can't pick anything new up, please be patient
> and wait for 4.4-rc1 to come out first...

Sorry, I wasn't thinking straight.

	Arnd
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Re: [RESEND PATCH] USB: usbmon: Use 64bit timestamp for mon_bin_hdr Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-11-05 17:20 +0100
  Re: [RESEND PATCH] USB: usbmon: Use 64bit timestamp for mon_bin_hdr Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2015-11-05 17:40 +0100
    Re: [RESEND PATCH] USB: usbmon: Use 64bit timestamp for mon_bin_hdr Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-11-05 20:10 +0100

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