On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 05:26:33AM -0800, tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Commit-ID: 64dac5c9e0f5a933e4520f0cb689b7b143925207 > Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/64dac5c9e0f5a933e4520f0cb689b7b143925207 > Author: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> > AuthorDate: Sun, 25 Dec 2016 11:38:40 +0100 > Committer: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> > CommitDate: Sun, 25 Dec 2016 13:11:50 +0100 > > ktime: Get rid of the union > > ktime is a union because the initial implementation stored the time in > scalar nanoseconds on 64 bit machine and in a endianess optimized timespec > variant for 32bit machines. The Y2038 cleanup removed the timespec variant > and switched everything to scalar nanoseconds. The union remained, but > become completely pointless. > > Get rid of the union and just keep ktime_t as simple typedef of type s64.
All good stuff. One question that remains is why keep the type while removing the cycles_t type?
