On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 7:46 PM, Christoph Hellwig <h...@infradead.org> wrote: >> and it >> would be dumb as hell to have new archs use time_t 32bit when we are >> currently twisting our brain around how to solve the y2038 >> problem. Simply because we can not do the BSD flag day approach and >> change it. > > I don't think it's a good idea to have minor new architectures > pointlessly different than the major ones. Especially given that we'll > absolutely have to fir the y2038 problem for 32-bit arm and probably > x86 anyway.
Considering someone just told me he plans to keep on using PPC based MVME boards for 8 more years, you can expect some of today's 32-bit hardware to be around in 24 years... Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- ge...@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/