Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH v2] firewire: Replace timeval with timespec64

2015-11-05 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Thursday 05 November 2015 14:34:48 Stefan Richter wrote: > On Oct 22 Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > On Thursday 22 October 2015 04:05:00 Amitoj Kaur Chawla wrote: > > > 32 bit systems using 'struct timeval' will break in the year 2038, so > > > we replace the code appropriately. However, this driver

Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH v2] firewire: Replace timeval with timespec64

2015-11-05 Thread Stefan Richter
On Oct 22 Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Thursday 22 October 2015 04:05:00 Amitoj Kaur Chawla wrote: > > 32 bit systems using 'struct timeval' will break in the year 2038, so > > we replace the code appropriately. However, this driver is not broken > > in 2038 since we are using only the microseconds

Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH v2] firewire: Replace timeval with timespec64

2015-11-05 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Thursday 05 November 2015 14:34:48 Stefan Richter wrote: > On Oct 22 Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > On Thursday 22 October 2015 04:05:00 Amitoj Kaur Chawla wrote: > > > 32 bit systems using 'struct timeval' will break in the year 2038, so > > > we replace the code appropriately. However, this driver

Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH v2] firewire: Replace timeval with timespec64

2015-11-05 Thread Stefan Richter
On Oct 22 Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Thursday 22 October 2015 04:05:00 Amitoj Kaur Chawla wrote: > > 32 bit systems using 'struct timeval' will break in the year 2038, so > > we replace the code appropriately. However, this driver is not broken > > in 2038 since we are using only the microseconds

Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH v2] firewire: Replace timeval with timespec64

2015-10-21 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Thursday 22 October 2015 04:05:00 Amitoj Kaur Chawla wrote: > 32 bit systems using 'struct timeval' will break in the year 2038, so > we replace the code appropriately. However, this driver is not broken > in 2038 since we are using only the microseconds portion of the > current time. > > This

Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH v2] firewire: Replace timeval with timespec64

2015-10-21 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Thursday 22 October 2015 04:05:00 Amitoj Kaur Chawla wrote: > 32 bit systems using 'struct timeval' will break in the year 2038, so > we replace the code appropriately. However, this driver is not broken > in 2038 since we are using only the microseconds portion of the > current time. > > This