Re: [GIT PULL] [PATCH v4 00/26] Delete CURRENT_TIME and CURRENT_TIME_SEC macros

From	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Subject	Re: [GIT PULL] [PATCH v4 00/26] Delete CURRENT_TIME and CURRENT_TIME_SEC macros
Date	2016-08-23 17:10 +0200
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On Monday, August 15, 2016 6:23:12 PM CEST Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 03:48:12PM -0700, Deepa Dinamani wrote:
> > The series is aimed at getting rid of CURRENT_TIME and CURRENT_TIME_SEC macros.
> > The macros are not y2038 safe. There is no plan to transition them into being
> > y2038 safe.
> > ktime_get_* api's can be used in their place. And, these are y2038 safe.
> 
> Who are you execting to pull this huge patch series?

Dave Chinner suggested to have Al Viro pick up the whole series.

> Why not just introduce the new api call, wait for that to be merged, and
> then push the individual patches through the different subsystems?
> After half of those get ignored, then provide a single set of patches
> that can go through Andrew or my trees.

That was the original approach for v4.7, but (along with requesting
a number of reworks that Deepa incorporated), Linus preferred doing
the API change done in one chunk, see
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9134249/

	Arnd

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[GIT PULL] [PATCH v4 00/26] Delete CURRENT_TIME and CURRENT_TIME_SEC macros Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com> - 2016-08-14 10:30 +0200
  [PATCH v4 22/26] libceph: Replace CURRENT_TIME with ktime_get_real_ts Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com> - 2016-08-14 12:30 +0200
  [PATCH v4 05/26] fs: Replace current_fs_time() with current_time() Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com> - 2016-08-14 12:30 +0200
  [PATCH v4 24/26] fnic: Use time64_t to represent trace timestamps Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com> - 2016-08-14 12:30 +0200
  [PATCH v4 13/26] fs: cifs: Replace CURRENT_TIME with ktime_get_real_ts() Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com> - 2016-08-14 12:30 +0200
  [PATCH v4 07/26] fs: jfs: Replace CURRENT_TIME_SEC by current_time() Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com> - 2016-08-14 12:40 +0200
  [PATCH v4 21/26] block: Replace CURRENT_TIME with ktime_get_real_ts Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com> - 2016-08-14 12:40 +0200
  [PATCH v4 14/26] fs: cifs: Replace CURRENT_TIME by get_seconds Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com> - 2016-08-14 12:40 +0200
  [PATCH v4 06/26] fs: ufs: Use ktime_get_real_ts64() for birthtime Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com> - 2016-08-14 12:40 +0200
  [PATCH v4 20/26] fs: nfs: Make nfs boot time y2038 safe Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com> - 2016-08-14 12:40 +0200
  [PATCH v4 23/26] fs: ceph: Replace current_fs_time for request stamp Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com> - 2016-08-14 12:50 +0200
  [PATCH v4 11/26] fs: udf: Replace CURRENT_TIME with current_time() Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com> - 2016-08-14 12:50 +0200
  [PATCH v4 09/26] fs: ubifs: Replace CURRENT_TIME_SEC with current_time Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com> - 2016-08-14 12:50 +0200
  [PATCH v4 18/26] fs: ocfs2: Replace CURRENT_TIME macro Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com> - 2016-08-14 13:00 +0200
  [PATCH v4 10/26] fs: btrfs: Use ktime_get_real_ts for root ctime Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com> - 2016-08-14 13:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v4 10/26] fs: btrfs: Use ktime_get_real_ts for root ctime David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz> - 2016-08-15 15:30 +0200
  [PATCH v4 17/26] fs: ocfs2: Use time64_t to represent orphan scan times Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com> - 2016-08-14 13:10 +0200
  [PATCH v4 15/26] fs: f2fs: Use ktime_get_real_seconds for sit_info times Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com> - 2016-08-14 13:10 +0200
  [PATCH v4 26/26] time: Delete CURRENT_TIME_SEC and CURRENT_TIME Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com> - 2016-08-14 13:20 +0200
  [PATCH v4 08/26] fs: ext4: Use current_time() for inode timestamps Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com> - 2016-08-14 13:20 +0200
  [PATCH v4 02/26] fs: proc: Delete inode time initializations in proc_alloc_inode() Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com> - 2016-08-14 13:30 +0200
  [PATCH v4 12/26] fs: cifs: Replace CURRENT_TIME by current_time() Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com> - 2016-08-14 13:40 +0200
  [PATCH v4 19/26] audit: Use timespec64 to represent audit timestamps Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com> - 2016-08-14 13:40 +0200
  [PATCH v4 25/26] time: Delete current_fs_time() function Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com> - 2016-08-14 13:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v4 25/26] time: Delete current_fs_time() function John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> - 2016-08-17 22:10 +0200
  [PATCH v4 16/26] drivers: staging: lustre: Replace CURRENT_TIME with current_time() Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com> - 2016-08-14 14:00 +0200
  [PATCH v4 01/26] vfs: Add current_time() api Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com> - 2016-08-14 16:50 +0200
  Re: [GIT PULL] [PATCH v4 00/26] Delete CURRENT_TIME and  CURRENT_TIME_SEC macros Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-08-15 18:30 +0200
    Re: [GIT PULL] [PATCH v4 00/26] Delete CURRENT_TIME and  CURRENT_TIME_SEC macros Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com> - 2016-08-16 20:20 +0200
      Re: [GIT PULL] [PATCH v4 00/26] Delete CURRENT_TIME and  CURRENT_TIME_SEC macros Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-08-16 21:00 +0200
    Re: [GIT PULL] [PATCH v4 00/26] Delete CURRENT_TIME and CURRENT_TIME_SEC macros Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-08-23 17:10 +0200

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