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RE: [PATCH] mpt3sas: Remove usage of 'struct timeval'

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Hi,
Please consider this patch as Ack-by: Sathya Prakash
<sathya.prakash@broadcom.com>

Thanks,
Sathya

-----Original Message-----
From: mpt-fusionlinux.pdl@broadcom.com
[mailto:mpt-fusionlinux.pdl@broadcom.com] On Behalf Of Martin K. Petersen
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2016 8:48 PM
To: Tina Ruchandani
Cc: MPT-FusionLinux.pdl@broadcom.com; Arnd Bergmann;
y2038@lists.linaro.org; linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org;
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com;
suganath-prabu.subramani@avagotech.com; Chaitra P B; Sreekanth Reddy
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mpt3sas: Remove usage of 'struct timeval'

>>>>> "Tina" == Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@gmail.com> writes:

Tina> 'struct timeval' will have its tv_sec value overflow on 32-bit
Tina> systems in year 2038 and beyond. This patch replaces the use of
Tina> struct timeval for computing mpi_request.TimeStamp, and instead
Tina> uses ktime_t which provides 64-bit seconds value. The timestamp
Tina> computed remains unaffected (milliseconds since Unix epoch).

Broadcom folks, please review.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering

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[PATCH] mpt3sas: Remove usage of 'struct timeval' Tina Ruchandani <ruchandani.tina@gmail.com> - 2016-04-13 11:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] mpt3sas: Remove usage of 'struct timeval' "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com> - 2016-04-15 04:50 +0200
    RE: [PATCH] mpt3sas: Remove usage of 'struct timeval' Sathya Prakash Veerichetty <sathya.prakash@broadcom.com> - 2016-04-15 19:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] mpt3sas: Remove usage of 'struct timeval' Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de> - 2016-04-15 09:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] mpt3sas: Remove usage of 'struct timeval' "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com> - 2016-04-15 22:30 +0200

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