On Mon, 27 Oct 2014, pang.xunlei wrote:

> The kernel uses 32-bit signed value(time_t) for seconds since 
> 1970-01-01:00:00:00, so it
> will overflow at 2038-01-19 03:14:08 on 32-bit systems. We call this "2038 
> safety" issue.
> 
> This patch fixed the build warnings brought by former patches.

If we know that the previous patch introduced the warning and that
patch has not yet been committed to any immutable git tree then we fix
it in that very patch and not after the fact.

Thanks,

        tglx
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